I was sick with a virus and didn't move off the floor for 5 days while listening to this on CD. I love Amelia dearly, so much so that in the days after I've finished one of her 'memoirs' I find myself wondering how they are and what they must be doing next.
Amelia 'Peabody' Emerson and her husband 'Emerson' are Egyptologists and explorers and their adventures are set in Victorian era England (and, of course, Egypt). Amelia is a feminist in the truest sense of the word. She adores her husband 'Emerson', who she thinks is a god incarnate and he marvels at the depth of her intellectual prowess and the lack of her display of 'female weakness' (which was very popular at the time.) They have great adventures together and thwart prejudice and ignorance as well as the occasional tomb robber.