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Definition of Edith Cavell
1. Noun. English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edith Cavell
Literary usage of Edith Cavell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"VII THE DEATH OF Edith Cavell* By HUGH GIBSON On August 5, 1915, Miss Edith
Cavell, an Englishwoman, directress of a large nursing home at Brussels, ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"... woman made no denial of her Edith Cavell IN BRUSSELS Miss Cavell (in the dark
uniform) is seated with'Dr. Depage, a distinguished Belgian physician, ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1916)
"Sir: Upon learning early yesterday morning through unofficial sources that the
trial of Miss Edith Cavell had been finished on Saturday afternoon, ..."
4. The War and Humanity: A Further Discussion of the Ethics of the World War by James Montgomery Beck (1917)
"... GERMAN UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MOVED by foreign denunciations of
the execution of Miss Edith Cavell, out of which he said Germany's enemies ..."
5. The War of Democracy, the Allies' Statement: Chapters on the Fundamental by James Bryce Bryce, David Lloyd George (1917)
"Edith Cavell had been three weeks in prison before her family in England heard
of her arrest, and then they only heard of it privately from a traveller who ..."
6. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"... VII Edith Cavell WE were all a little saddened at Mr. Crosby's going and I
regretted my own inability to join in the ceremony at which the men of the CN ..."
7. World's War Events: Recorded by Statesmen, Commanders, Historians and by Men by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill (1919)
"BRAND WHITLOCK ONE day in August it was learned at t- Legation that an English
nurse, nat Edith Cavell, had been arrested by ti- Germans. ..."
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