Edith Cavell and her Legend

• Main Author: Hallett, Christine E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social history.; Great Britain-History.; Military history.; Civilization-History.; Women.; Social History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Military.; Cultural History.; Women's Studies.

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...