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Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf , 1915-63, French cabaret singer, born as Edith Giovanna Gassion. She began to sing at 15 in cafés and in the streets of Paris and was soon engaged to sing in a cabaret. Fame quickly followed her appearances in nightclubs all over Europe and America. Piaf appeared in several movies... Read more
Edith Cavell
Edith Cavell , 1865-1915, English nurse. When World War I broke out, she was head of the nursing staff of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels. In 1915 she was arrested by the German occupation authorities and pleaded guilty to a charge of harboring and aiding Allied prisoners and assisting ... Read more
Edith Cresson
Edith Cresson , 1934-, French politician, b. Edith Campion. After studying at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, she became a consultant in private industry. Active in the Socialist party, she became national secretary of the party (for youth) in 1974 and was elected to the Euro... Read more
Edith Head
Edith Head 1907-81, American costume designer, b. Los Angeles, Calif. She began to design costumes for the motion pictures in the early 1930s, working at Paramount for most of her career and moving to Universal in 1967. She won eight Academy Awards for a variety of films, including The Heiress (1... Read more
Dame Edith Evans
Dame Edith Evans 1888-1976, English actress. After her stage debut in 1912, Evans toured with Ellen Terry. Known for her resonant voice, she worked with the Old Vic (1925-26) and had a distinguished career on the stage and in films. She was celebrated for her performances in Elizabethan, Restoratio... Read more
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton 1862-1937, American novelist, b. New York City, noted for her subtle, ironic, and superbly crafted fictional studies of New York society at the turn of the 20th cent. The daughter of a socially elect family, she was educated privately in New York and in Europe. In 1885 s... Read more
Edith Irene Södergran
Edith Irene Södergran , 1892-1923, Swedish poet, b. St. Petersburg, Russia. Södergran spent most of her adult life in poor health and in isolation in SE Finland near the Russian border. Dikter (1916), her first book, was a collection of free verse that introduced the modernist movement t... Read more
Grace Abbott
Grace Abbott 1878-1939, American social worker, b. Grand Island, Nebr. She did notable work as director (1921-34) of the Child Labor Division of the U.S. Children's Bureau. The Child and the State (2 vol., 1938) is her most important publication. Her sister, Edith Abbott, 1876-1957, became dean... Read more
Michael Field
Michael Field pseud. used by two English authors, Katherine Harris Bradley, 1846-1914, and her niece Edith Emma Cooper, 1862-1913, who collaborated on numerous literary works, including lyrics and poetic tragedies. Although their work was praised by such contemporaries as Robert Browning and Ge... Read more
Q. D. Leavis
Q. D. Leavis (Queenie Dorothy Leavis), 1906-81, British literary critic; wife of F. R. Leavis . After studying at Cambridge, she wrote Fiction and the Reading Public (1932), which analyzed the market for different types of fiction among readers). Her essays on Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and oth... Read more

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Edith Piaf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Piaf Edith Giovanna Gassion, known as Edith Piaf (1915-1963), was a French music hall/cabaret singer whose specialty was the love ballad. Edith Gassion was born in Belleville, a congested working-class neighborhood of Paris, on...
Edith Wharton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan...
Wharton, Edith
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Wharton Born: January 24, c. 1861 New...11, 1937 Paris, France American author Edith Wharton, American author, chronicled the...Mirth and The Age of Innocence. Childhood Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New...
Dame Edith Sitwell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Dame Edith Sitwell The English poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was one of England's dominating...figures for half a century and its most eminent woman poet. Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough on Sept. 7, 1887, into...
Edith Anna OEnone Somerville
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Anna OEnone Somerville Edith Anna OEnone Somerville (1858-1949), who in collaboration with...Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Henry Somerville, was stationed, Edith Anna OEnone Somerville returned by the age of one to Ireland, where...
Edith Nourse Rogers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Nourse Rogers Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) was the first woman from New England to...tirelessly for veterans' concerns throughout her congressional career. Edith Nourse Rogers, daughter of Franklin Nourse and Edith Frances Riversmith...
Edith Hamilton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Hamilton Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) was an excellent teacher, scholar, and writer...honorary citizen of Athens, and was awarded several honorary doctorates. Edith Hamilton was born in Dresden, Germany, on August 12, 1867, while...
Edith Head
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Head Edith Head (c. 1898-1981) is widely viewed as Holly-wood's most successful...Awards, won eight, and designed the costumes for several hundred films. Edith Head's birthdate was probably October 28, 1898. All records of that...
Edith Starrett Green
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith Starrett Green A U.S. congresswoman from Oregon from 1954 to 1974, Edith Starrett Green (1910-1987) worked vigorously...educational opportunity and for women's rights. Edith Starrett Green was born January 17, 1910, in Trent...
Edith R. Peterson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Edith R. Peterson A medical researcher specializing in cell cultures, Edith R. Peterson (1914-1992) was the first scientist...diseases of the nervous system. Peterson was born Edith Elizabeth Runne on June 24, 1914, in Brooklyn...

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Jacobson, Edith (1897-1978)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis JACOBSON, EDITH (1897-1978) Edith Jacobson, psychoanalyst and physician, was born September 10...Germany and died December 8, 1978 in Rochester, New York. Edith Jacobson's father was a physician and her mother was a talented...
Head, Edith
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers HEAD, Edith Costume Designer. Nationality: American. Born: Edith Claire Posener in San Bernardino, California, 28 October 1897. Education: Attended elementary school in Redding, California to 1911; schools in Los Angeles; University...
Cavell, Edith
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Cavell, Edith (1865–1915). The daughter of a Norfolk vicar, Edith Cavell was a governess in Brussels before training as a nurse. In 1907 she became matron of the hospital of St Gilles, Brussels, and remained there at the outbreak...
Mathis, Edith
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Mathis, Edith ( b Lucerne, 1938). Swiss soprano. Début Lucerne 1956 (Second Boy in Die Zauberflöte ). Cologne Opera...
Stein, St Edith
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Stein, St Edith (1891–1942), Carmelite nun. Of Jewish family, she studied under E. Husserl and became a leading figure in the...
Piaf (Gassion), Edith (Giovanna)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Piaf [Gassion], Edith (Giovanna) ( b Paris, 1915; d Mougins, 1963). French chanteuse . As a child, assisted her father in his circus act. At...
Cresson, Edith
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Cresson, Edith (b.27 Jan. 1934). French Prime Minister 1991–2 The daughter of a finance inspector and wife of a high-ranking...
Peinemann, Edith
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Peinemann, Edith ( b Mainz, 1937). Ger. violinist. First taught by father, who was leader of Mainz orch. Won Munich int. comp. 1956. NY...
Cavell, Edith (Louisa)
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Cavell, Edith (Louisa) (1865–1915) British nurse. In charge of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels during World War...
Sitwell
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...literary family of the 20th century: Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), Sir...published numerous prose and verse works. Edith is best known as a poet, Osbert as an...William Walton, who collaborated with Edith on Façade (1922), a suite...

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Edith Bunker shows a lot of Christian-like qualities; Role model: TV character did a lot of good things
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 3/15/2003; ; 700+ words ; I'm turning into Edith Bunker. How's that for a frightening revelation? If you know who Edith Bunker is - the dowdy, dingbat wife of bigoted...that I realized I am now almost the age that Edith was during "All in the Family's" first...
Edith Stein: a biography.
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/11/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...SAINT TO COME IT IS increasingly clear that Edith Stein, the philosopher, mystic, and...you ever wanted to know about anything, Edith Stein's thinking came to that point of...biography of this yet uncanonized saint, Edith Stein, by a Carmelite nun named Waltraud...
Edith Brimmer
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 5/3/2005; ; 632 words ; Colonial Funeral Home Edith Brimmer 86, has gone to join her two...with her two Grandsons Danny and Marvin. Edith was born December 31, 1918 in Toppenish...her seven younger brothers and sisters. Edith was always there for her family as a big...
Edith Stein: true daughter of Israel.
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross? Edith Stein, killed at Auschwitz death camp...of metaphysics is endemic, we have in Edith Stein a woman of impeccable philosophical...believe women are no different from men, Edith Stein's luminous writings on the true...
Will Shortz Challenges Edith Brown to Word Games
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 3/31/1996; 700+ words ; ...00-0000 Last week's puzzle winner, Edith Brown of Narberth, Pennsylvania, will...wits with puzzle meister Will Shortz. Edith Brown listens to WHYY in Philadelphia...challenge, and on our on-air player today is Edith Brown, and she lives in Narberth, Pennsylvania...
Edith and I should have a pop at the Christmas No.1; Exclusive Fame Academy star Colin is in a real spin about Radio 1 DJ pal.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 3/7/2007; 700+ words ; ...to do a Christmas record with best pal Edith Bowman. Tonight the Radio 1 DJ sings for...Academy, which two years ago was won by Edith. The Scot never cashed in on her victory...doesn't mean he wouldn't do a duet with Edith. Belfast-born Colin said: "If Edith...
Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite...Posselt of the Cologne Carmel concerning Edith Stein, which she decided to write because...and the destruction of Europe's Jews, Edith Stein's niece, the author Susanne M...
OBIT - MILLS, EDITH MAE JENNELLE
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 11/14/2006; 700+ words ; Edith Mae Jennelle Mills, of Christiansburg...Heritage Hall in Blacksburg, Virginia. Edith was born March 15, 1916 in Cambria, Virginia...with her family at the age of 21. In 1951 Edith married the late William Watson (Bill...
Quaker Activist Edith Cole Wreaks Peace in Violent Places
Magazine article from: Peacework; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...met 67-year-old Quaker peace activist Edith Cole with her soft voice and white hair...tracks. Over the next hour however, as Edith quietly and modestly explained her work...southern border patrol, have witnessed Edith in action for years. A school psychologist...
Piano has been a key in Edith Martin's life
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 12/5/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION Edith Martin has taught piano in the Miller section...PHOTO) (POST-TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO) Edith Martin has been giving piano lessons for...schools, and churches in India, and Edith said a city was named after him called...