Edith Helen Sichel was an English author, sister of Walter Sichel. She was born on 13 December 1862, in London, to Jewish 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) References External links 1862 births 1914 deaths English Jewish writers English biographers English women non-fiction writers Jewish women writers 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English writers 19th-century English women writers Women biographers Writers from London English people of German-Jewish descent 20th-century biographers 19th-century biographers