This past Valentine’s Day, Emily Gould published a personal essay for The Cut about her marriage, titled “The Lure of Divorce.” The piece, which quickly went viral, details the arc of her union to ...

It’s no insult to the late Stanley Cavell, whose death at age 91 was announced on Tuesday, that he was the rare philosopher who was read as much for his prose as for his ideas. Although Cavell had all ...

Dave Cavell, one of the nine Democrats running in the Fourth Congressional District, announced Thursday that he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Jesse Mermell in an attempt to make it harder ...

The stoicism that made Edith Cavell a symbol of courage makes her an elusive biographical subject for Diana Souhami, says Jane Shilling In St Martin’s Place, London, stands a marble statue of Edith ...

Centenary of death of British nurse executed for treason in 1915 marked as evidence emerges of possible links to British intelligence On 12 October 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was shot at dawn by ...

Early news reports, which inspired a number of propaganda postcards, incorrectly said Edith Cavell had fainted after refusing to wear a blindfold at her execution Edith Cavell died as a pioneering ...

In 1932, Madame Tussaud’s asked their younger visitors to choose from among the waxworks the individual they most wanted to be like when they grew up. The most popular answer was not the kind of ...

Garrison Cavell acknowledges that the National Association of Broadcasters created a unique situation by presenting this year’s engineering achievement awards to him and his wife. Cavell, president of ...

The British nurse Edith Cavell worked as part of a Belgian resistance network during the first world war, operating from the training school she had been recruited to set up in Brussels in 1907. The ...

Edith Cavell died as a pioneering nurse exactly 100 years ago, executed by the German army on 12 October 1915 for helping British soldiers get home from Belgium. Her death became notorious across the ...

It is surprising to read the biography of someone as famously brave and selfless as Edith Cavell and find no suggestion in her life before the age of 40 that there was anything exceptional about her.