Marianne Brocklehurst

She supported a number of Egyptian excavations and donated most of her collection of antiquities to the West Park museum in Macclesfield.

Her sister Emma said it was because Marianne was “not for marrying.”[4] From the 1870s she shared her life with her companion Mary Booth.

Edwards later published her account of the journey in the bestselling A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877).

[6] She made several drawings during her trips to Egypt, many of which show up in her published diary[5] and some of which are displayed at various museums.

She contributed to Edwards' Egypt Exploration Fund, and was an early subscriber to the fund-raising efforts of Flinders Petrie.

[6] There was some dispute between the Brocklehursts and the council about the building of the museum,[12] and she remained in London on the opening day.