Edith Cavell

English war-nurse, head of a nurses’ training school in Brussels, where she attended German as well as Allied soldiers during the European War. In August 1915, she was accused by the German military authorities of Belgium of assisting prisoners to escape, and in October was condemned to be shot by a firing squad of German soldiers.

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Elizabeth Carter

English writer of various books of prose and verse, chiefly remembered for her admirable translation of Epictetus, the first that appear in English.

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