TY - BOOK ID - 46207845 TI - Edith Cavell and her legend PY - 2019 SN - 113754371X 1137543701 9781137543707 PB - London: Palgrave MacMillan, DB - UniCat KW - Social history. KW - Great Britain-History. KW - Military history. KW - Civilization-History. KW - Women. KW - Social History. KW - History of Britain and Ireland. KW - History of Military. KW - Cultural History. KW - Women's Studies. KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Military historiography KW - Military history KW - Wars KW - Historiography KW - History KW - Naval history KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - Sociology KW - Great Britain—History. KW - Civilization—History. KW - Nurses - Great Britain - Biography KW - British - Belgium - Biography KW - World War, 1914-1918 - Belgium - Medical care KW - World War, 1914-1918 - Atrocities KW - Nurses - Belgium - Biography KW - Military Medicine - history - Belgium KW - Military Medicine - history - Great Britain KW - War Crimes - Belgium KW - War Crimes - Great Britain KW - World War I - Belgium KW - Cavell, Edith, - 1865-1915 KW - Cavell, Edith, - 1865-1915 - Trials, litigation, etc. KW - Cavell, Edith, - 1865-1915 - Death and burial KW - Nurses KW - British KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Military Medicine KW - War Crimes KW - World War I UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46207845 AB - 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 was constructed around her; and, secondly, the mismatch between the attempts of individuals and professional organisations to commemorate her life and work, and the public construction of a “heroine” who could be of value to the nation state. ER -