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Edith Helen Sichel (1862-1914) was born in London in 1862. Her parents, who came originally from Germany, had her home-schooled by private tutors and she became interested in Renaissance history, later publishing several studies of Catherine de Medici and of the French Renaissance, as well as a biography of Michel de Montaigne (1911). Her brother Walter (1855-1933) was a distinguished lawyer and biographer.
