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Christine E. Hallett

Edith Cavell and Her Legend

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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 of her case. Her own voice, along with those of her family, colleagues and friends, were muted, as a monolithic image of a national heroine and martyr emerged. The book identifies two main areas of tension in her commemoration: firstly, the contrast between complexity of her own behaviour and motivations and the simplicity of the Cavell Legend that w… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-349-71329-5
  • EAN: 9781349713295
  • Produktnummer: 33249400
  • Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 137 S.
  • Auflage: 2019

Über den Autor


Christine E Hallett is Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is Chair of the UK Association for the History of Nursing, and President of the European Association for the History of Nursing. Her most recent work has focussed on the practice of nurses during the First World War, and she has published four monographs, including Nurse Writers of the Great War (2016).

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