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Edith Cavell

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Edith Cavell

By Diana Souhami

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About the book

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 mo...Show more

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9781784291327

Publisher

Quercus Publishing

Published year

2015

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1

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Edith Cavell

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Paperback

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