Edith Helen Sichel was an

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author, sister of Walter Sichel. She was born on 13 December 1862, in

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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 and the French Reformation'' (1905); * ''Life and Letters of Alfred Ainger'' (1906) * ''The Later Years of Catherine de' Medici'' (1908) * '' Michel de Montaigne'' (1911) * ''The Renaissance'' (1914)

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