Edith Cavell

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Society

Knowledge cost

5

Influence

10

Resistance

7

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Edith Louisa Cavell ( KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Edith Cavell”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: The original uploader was Vivedatica at Dutch Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.