Mapping memorials for Edith Caveli on the coionsal edge

摘要

This paper identifies and explains the pattern of memorialization in New Zealand for English nurse Edith Caveli, arguing that while the influences of empire and colonial mimicry provided a strong overarching framework, local context and parochial expressions were also strong at the colonial edge, In 1915 Caveli was executed by the occupying German forces in Belgium for her resistance work. The general transnational pattern of remembrance that resulted from the huge reaction to her death is explained. The paper then turns to the New Zealand memorialization of Caveli. With reference to monuments for other medical women, and addressing where Caveli does not appear in the landscape, the last section contextualizes Cavell's New Zealand memorialization.