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Author | : Diana Souhami |
Publisher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1623652391 |
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Edith Cavell was born on 4th December 1865, daughter of the vicar of Swardeston in Norfolk, and shot in Brussels on 12th October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childhood in 19th century England, Edith worked as a governess in the UK and abroad, before training as a nurse in London in 1895. To Edith, nursing was a duty, a vocation, but above all a service. By 1907, she had travelled most of Europe and become matron of her own hospital in Belgium, where, under her leadership, a ramshackle hospital with few staff and little organization became a model nursing school. When war broke out, Edith helped soldiers to escape the war by giving them jobs in her hospital, finding clothing and organizing safe passage into Holland. In all, she assisted over two hundred men. When her secret work was discovered, Edith was put on trial and sentenced to death by firing squad. She uttered only 130 words in her defense. A devout Christian, the evening before her death, she asked to be remembered as a nurse, not a hero or a martyr, and prayed to be fit for heaven. When news of Edith's death reached Britain, army recruitment doubled. After the war, Edith's body was returned to the UK by train and every station through which the coffin passed was crowded with mourners. Diana Souhami brings one of the Great War's finest heroes to life in this biography of a hardworking, courageous and independent woman.
Author | : Terri Arthur |
Publisher | : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781595983541 |
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Originally published: Beagle Books, 2011. British edition published with the title Fatal destiny: Edith Cavell, World War I nurse.
Author | : Terri Arthur |
Publisher | : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781595985200 |
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Edith Cavell was a nurse who helped hundreds of British soldiers escape the Germans through the Belgian underground during World War II. Her later arrest and execution by the Germans caused an uproar around the world.
Author | : Terri Arthur |
Publisher | : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781595983428 |
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"Based on the US edition, originally published by Beagle Books, LLC, under ISBN 978-09841813-2-2"--Title page verso.
Author | : Christine Farenhorst |
Publisher | : P & R Publishing |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781596380264 |
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Born in 1865 to an English vicar and his wife, Edith becomes a governess, then at the age of thirty a nurse, opening a nursing school in Belgium and serving there during World War I, when her compassion leads to her arrest for aiding the enemy.
Author | : Ernest Protheroe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Nurses |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Catherine Butcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9780857216571 |
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An arresting short biography from the perspective of Edith Cavell's faith. Her execution in October 1915 caused international outcry.
Author | : Christine E. Hallett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113754371X |
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This book examines the myriad identities and portrayals of Edith Cavell, as they have been constructed and handed down by propagandists, biographers and artists. Cavell was first introduced to the British public through a series of Foreign Office statements which claimed to establish the “facts” of her case. Her own voice, along with those of her family, colleagues and friends, were muted, as a monolithic image of a national heroine and martyr emerged. The book identifies two main areas of tension in her commemoration: firstly, the contrast between complexity of her own behaviour and motivations and the simplicity of the “Cavell Legend” that was constructed around her; and, secondly, the mismatch between the attempts of individuals and professional organisations to commemorate her life and work, and the public construction of a “heroine” who could be of value to the nation state.
Author | : Nick Hunter |
Publisher | : Raintree |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1406289914 |
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Discover how these courageous women pursued their vocation to help others in times of war. How did their lives and work compare in very different times? Follow their stories to discover the differences and similarities between their amazing lives! Addressing the needs of the new history National Curriculum, this book will engage readers and encourage them to ask questions about history and how times change.
Author | : Ranjit Jhuboo |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2018-12-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1546299963 |
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In May of 2019, it was a hundred years since the remains of Edith Cavell were brought back to England from Belgium to be given a proper burial—one deserving of a war heroine. Edith Cavell was unique in many ways. She was a Victorian girl raised in a strictly devout Christian family who lived their lives according to the Scriptures. They cared for the welfare of others and regularly gave alms to the poor. Nursing, therefore, became a natural career choice for her and her sisters. An excellent nurse, she was invited to Belgium to modernize the nursing system. But then World War I broke out and a brutal martial law was imposed on the land, which severely interfered with her project. But in Edith Cavell all it did was to bring out her innate humanitarian instincts. Righteous and fearless, she defied the ruthless German military and joined an underground movement, and used her hospital to nurse and hide Allied soldiers who were wounded or had become detached from their regiments, men who would have been shot if caught. Eventually, she was arrested, incarcerated, court-martialled, and then executed by a firing squad; but not before helping hundreds of men escape to neutral Holland. Katie Pickles, in her book, Transnational Outrage: The Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell, describes her killing as ‘one of the most famous atrocities of the Great War.’