A cup of cold water : the compassion of nurse Edith Cavell (Chosen Daughters) /
Christine Farenhorst.
- 222 pages : 1 map ; 22 cm
- Chosen daughters. .
- Chosen daughters .
20th Century Belgium, World War I.--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222).
Born in 1865 to an English vicar and his wife, Edith becomes a governess, then at the age of thirty a nurse, opening a nursing school in Belgium and serving there during World War I, when her compassion leads to her arrest for aiding the enemy.
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Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915 --Juvenile fiction.
Christian life --Fiction. Nurses --Fiction. World War, --Belgium --1914-1918 --Fiction. Christian biography.
Belgium --History --German occupation, 1914-1918--Fiction. Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.