Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (1831–1892), popular novelist, gifted artist, and intrepid adventurer, is today particularly known for her two illustrated travelogues, Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites (1873) and A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (1876). The first popularised the Dolomite region and the second, led to Edwards founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund (née Society) and becoming a key figure in creating archaeology as an academic discipline. Initially travelling to Italy because of personal disappointment, it is her time there that provides unique insights into a complex, intellectual, and oftentimes unconventional woman who did not allow society’s traditional female expectations to confine her. Edwards’ travel writings and illustrations paint vivid pictures of the adventures of travel for the imperial woman and of an Italy at once picturesque and familiar yet also sublime and unknown. This chapter, by way of Henri Lefebvre, will examine the personal, artistic, and literary landscapes of Amelia B. Edwards in Italy and how they reflect and shape the social and gender concerns of the age.