Erection date: 19/3/2015
Amelia Edwards, 1831 - 1892, Egyptologist and writer, lived here.
English Heritage
WC1, Wharton Street, 19
At the unveiling Professor Sir Christopher Frayling said "This blue plaque marks the family home where she came to maturity as a writer, and where she displayed the appetite for knowledge and learning on which her pioneering work on Egyptology was based."
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Amelia Edwards
Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington....
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Amelia Edwards
Plaque unveiled by Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellan.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall carried out the first ringing of the bell.
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Apart from the architect the names on this plaque are the same as those on the Diss Street plaque.
{Below two crossed laurel branches:} LCC Heinrich Heine, German poet and essayist (1799-1856) lived here in 1827.
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