A cup of cold water
Subtitle: the compassion of nurse Edith Cavell
By: Christine Farenhorst.
Series: Chosen daughters
Publisher: P&R Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Phillipsburg, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596380264
Subjects: Cavell, Edith, -- 1865-1915 -- Juvenile fiction; Cavell, Edith, -- 1865-1915 -- Fiction; Christian life -- Fiction; Nurses -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction; Belgium -- History -- 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes historical notes, glossary, timeline, and bibliographical references.