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b"Amelia Edwards was born in 1831 in London, England. As such she is one of the oldest writers we\\u2019ve read so far in this podcast. She died aged only 60 in Weston Supermare, a seaside resort in the west of England.She came from a wealthy background and didn\\u2019t have to work, but she was a very successful writer based on her own talents.She was in fact a very talented woman and had the potential to be a professional artist though her father, a banker, frowned on that as a career. She also made home with a woman, long before such things were accepted by polite British society.She was also an Egyptologist and after a cruise down the Nile and a long stay among the monuments, she devoted all of her efforts to saving the Egyptian monuments and took a lecture tour over several years in the United States to promote the cause.The Phantom Coach is a much anthologised story and it has some wonderful description. I think the story falls into three parts: lost on the Moors and despite what most commentators think, I suspect this is Northumberland rather than Yorkshire given what she says about the \\u2018far\\u2019 north of England. Despite that I have given Jacob a fudged Northern English accent which isn\\u2019t very Northumberland but draws on my native Cumbrian accent.The first part is well-done: lost. Then our man is found. He goes to a Victor Frankenstein type natural philosopher who has withdrawn from the world and lives with his alchemical and other vaguely occult thoughts, bitter that science has turned its back on spirits.\\xa0Frankenstein by Mary Shelly was published in 1818, so predating Amelia by a way. Madame Blavatsky who founded the Theosophical Society was born the same year as Amelia so maybe the occult was in the air.\\xa0The third part, which is a standard haunting story is very well described. The only connection I think it has with the Magus bloke in his remote house is that he has spoken about the reality of spirits: and here they are proved.\\xa0No real moral point in this week\\u2019s story. Unlike the later bleak works of the early 20th Century, there is a happy ending!Support Us!Ways to support Tony to keep doing the show:https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/classic-ghost-stories-923395 (Share and rate it!)\\xa0http://bit.ly/2QKgHkY (Buy Tony a coffee)\\xa0to help with the long nights editing!Become a\\xa0http://bit.ly/barcudpatreon (Patreon)\\xa0to get additional stuff and allow the show to go on in the long term.\\xa0Website\\xa0http://bit.ly/ClassicGhostStoriesPodcast (Classic Ghost Stories Podcast)\\xa0MusicMusic is by the marvellous\\xa0https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/witch-phase-four (Heartwood Institute)\\xa0Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"