Edith Helen Sichel (1862-1914) was an

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author, sister of

Walter Sichel Walter Sydney Sichel (1855–1933) was an English biographer and lawyer, the brother of Edith Helen Sichel, of German-Jewish descent, born in London and educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford. He studied law and was called to the bar ...

. She was born on 13 December 1862, in

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, to

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migrants from Germany who converted to Christianity, and educated at home by private teachers. She died on 13 August 1914 in Carnforth (Lancashire).

Bibliography

* ''Two Salons'' (1895) * ''The Household of the Lafayettes'' (1897) * ''Women and Men of the French Renaissance'' (1901) * ''

Catherine de' Medici Catherine de' Medici (, ; , ; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian Republic of Florence, Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to Henry II of France, King Henry II. Sh ...

and the French Reformation'' (1905); * ''Life and Letters of Alfred Ainger'' (1906) * ''The Later Years of Catherine de' Medici'' (1908) * ''

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'' (1911) * ''The Renaissance'' (1914)

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