The Mummy!

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema and David Roberts. Egypt's mummy revives in the year 2126 and finds England a monarchy run by women, with steam carriages, air balloons and coffee delivered by pipe. Jane Loudon published it at twenty, orphaned and penniless, and it may be the first mummy story ever written; the horticulturist she ...