Women / Persons ~ P10300

Edith Cavell

Alternate Names:

Edith Louisa Cavell

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915

Types:

Heroine of rescue
Medicine, nurse
Reformer, nursing
Victim of injustice

Note: WWI nurse and heroine, executed for treason under German law for helping Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium.

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Biographies (7 Total)

Edith Cavell Author: Mabel Burns McKinley , Marion Keith , Lucy Maud Montgomery . Collection Title: Courageous Women. 1934
Edith Cavell Author: Dame Margaret Postgate Cole DBE. Collection Title: Women of To-day. 1938
Edith Cavell Author: Frank Harold Lee . Collection Title: The Children's Book of Heroines. 1940
Edith Cavell, Martyr Nurse, by J.W. Prince Author: . Collection Title: Women Leaders. 1940
Epilogue Author: Francis Henry Gribble . Collection Title: Women in War. 1916
Nurse Cavell Author: Kent Carr . Collection Title: Women Who Dared: Heroines of the Great War. 1920
Nurse Edith Cavell Author: E. W. Walters . Collection Title: Heroines of the World-War. 1916