ABSTRACT
In 1873 Amelia Edwards was to take a journey up the Nile that was to change her career and make her one of the more famous Egyptologists of the nineteenth century. She was not alone at this time in making this journey. Posterity has made less of the activities of Marianne Brocklehurst, the daughter of an upper-class silk manufacturer, who travelled in her dahabeeyah (Nile boat) the 'Bagstones' (named after her horne on her brother's Swytham estate) at the same time as Edwards was travelling in her dahabeeyah, the 'Philae'. The two women met up on this journey, which Marianne set out on accompanied by her companion Miss Booth, Marianne's nephew Alfred and their intrepid footman George. Their expeditions included travelling by donkey to Sakkara to see the sites of tombs and pyramids. Her diary entry for 11 March 1874 refers to the pulling down of a temple in order to build a house.
