Editha Lim

Binky Editha Lim, age 50, Cape Coral, FL View Details

Cities: Fort Washington MD, Montgomery Village MD Possible Relatives: Annaliza Gobant Bacatano, Barbara Ibay Gobantes, Dennis Orejudos Gobantes

Binky Editha Lim, age 50, Cape Coral, FL View Details

Locations: Fort Washington MD, Montgomery Village MD Possible Relatives: Annaliza Gobant Bacatano, Barbara Ibay Gobantes

Death of Edith Alice Morrell

Edith Alice Morrell was a resident of Eastbourne and patient of Dr John Bodkin Adams. Although Adams was acquitted in 1957 of her murder, the question of Adams' role in Mrs Morrell's death excited cread more...onsiderable interest at the time and continues to do so. This is partly because of negative pre-trial publicity which remains in the public record, partly because of the several dramatic incidents in the trial and partly as Adams declined to give evidence in his own defence. The trial featured in headlines around the world and was described at the time as "one of the greatest murder trials of all time" and "murder trial of the century". It was also described by the trial judge as unique because "the act of murder" had "to be proved by expert evidence." The trial also established the legal doctrine of double effect, where a doctor giving treatment with the aim of relieving pain may, as an unintentional result, shorten life.read less...

Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper, an English/Australian poet who was a pioneer of modernist poetry, and one of the most important female poets writing during the first half ofread more... the twentieth century. She was friend to other important writers of the time, such as D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Katherine Mansfield and Dylan Thomas. Wickham lived a transnational, unconventional life, moving between Australia, England and France. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer, although one who did not command sustained critical attention in her lifetime, although her poetry did earn her a major reputation at the time of writing and had been frequently anthologised. Her literary reputation has improved since her death and she is now regarded as an important early 20th-century woman writer.read less...

Edith Alma Eileen Savell

Edith Alma Eileen Savell (1883–1970) was a notable New Zealand farmer and volunteer nurse. She was born in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand in 1883.

Stella Muir

Stella Muir, known as the English Mary Pickford was an early twentieth-century English film actress.