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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Walter Peabody
Emerson, known universally as "Ramses," is a fictional character in the
Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels set in Victorian Egypt and
England, written by author Elizabeth Peters. He is the son of
Egyptologists Amelia Peabody and her husband, Professor Radcliffe
Emerson. Amelia Peabody announces her pregnancy at the end of
''Crocodile on the Sandbank'' and Ramses first appears in the second
book of the series, The Curse of the Pharaohs. Born in the summer of
1887, named for his father's younger brother, he received the nickname
"Ramses" from his father, who said of his baby, "in its belligerent
appearance and imperious disposition it strongly resembled the Egyptian
pharaoh, the second of that name, who had scattered enormous statues of
himself all along the Nile." Likewise, his swarthy complexion and dark
hair gave him a closer resemblance to Egyptians than to traditional
English boys. As he grows up, he also cultivates an impassive facial
expression that Nefret Emerson calls his "stone pharaoh" face.
