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Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf (Édith Giovanna Gassion, 1915–1963), French chanson réaliste singer known as the Little Sparrow; wrote La Vie en rose, famous for Hymne à l'amour and Non, je ne regrette rien, died at 47, buried at Père-Lachaise.

Edith Pretty

Edith Pretty (née Dempster, 1883–1942), Sutton Hoo landowner, instigated the 1938–1939 excavations that uncovered the Anglo-Saxon Great Ship Burial, then donated the entire treasure trove to the British Museum and declined a CBE.

Edith Roosevelt

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (1861-1948), second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt, was First Lady 1901-1909; she directed the 1902 White House renovation, hired the first salaried social secretary, and displayed former first ladies' portraits.

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Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887–1964) was a British poet, eldest of the literary Sitwell siblings, best known for Façade (1922) and her flamboyant public persona.

Edith Södergran

Edith Irene Södergran (1892–1923) was a Finland-Swedish poet, born in St. Petersburg, who introduced modernist free verse in Swedish and became one of Finland's foremost poets.

Edith Stein

Edith Stein, later Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was a German phenomenologist known for her work on empathy who became a Carmelite nun and died at Auschwitz in 1942.

Edith Tiempo

Edith Tiempo was a Filipino poet, fiction writer, and teacher who in 1962 co-founded Asia's first creative writing workshop and became National Artist for Literature in 1999.

Edith Tolkien

Edith Mary Tolkien, née Bratt (1889–1971), English pianist and wife of J.R.R. Tolkien; met him at a Birmingham boarding house, married him in 1916, inspired Lúthien, and is buried as Lúthien at Wolvercote Cemetery.

EdiTh trial

EdiTh (Ed.iTh, NCT05098444) is a randomized controlled trial at Philipps University Marburg testing an eight-module therapist-guided internet-based CBT program against a waiting list to improve quality of life in women with endometriosis; distinct from the UK EDITH breast screening AI trial.

Edith Tudor-Hart

Edith Tudor-Hart, born Edith Suschitzky in Vienna (1908–1973), was an Austrian-British documentary photographer of working-class life who also spied for the Soviet Union, helping recruit Kim Philby.

Edith Wetzel

Edith "Eadie" Wetzel, American swimmer; held the women's 200 m freestyle long course world record (2:08.8, Lincoln, 2 August 1968) and ranked in world top ten at 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle; Illinois Swimming Hall of Fame.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist of Gilded Age New York society; author of The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Novel Prize (1921).

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Edith Widder

Edith Widder is an oceanographer and deep-sea explorer specializing in bioluminescence who invented stealth camera systems that produced the first video of a live giant squid in 2012.

Edith Wilson

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1872–1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson and first lady 1915–1921; after his October 1919 stroke she controlled access and screened state papers for 17 months, her self-described "stewardship" of the presidency.

Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands

The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands are a pair of wetlands in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs, the last remnants of Carrum Carrum Swamp and a Ramsar site since 2001.

Editing

Editing: the process of improving a text for publication, spanning developmental editing (structure, plot), line editing (sentence-level style), copyediting (grammar, consistency), and proofreading, with costs, standards, and AI-era changes.

Editing and modification of viral RNA

Editing and modification of viral RNA is the process by which host enzymes such as ADAR and APOBEC edit viral genomes and add chemical marks like m6A.

Editing and proofreading by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

Editing and proofreading by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are hydrolytic quality-control reactions that remove wrong amino acids and mischarged tRNAs, maintaining the accuracy of the genetic code.

Edition (book)

Edition (book): the set of all copies printed from one setting of type; distinct from printing (impression), issue, and state. Covers first-edition identification, book club editions, MARC 250/ISBN cataloging, and collecting value.

Éditions de Minuit

Les Éditions de Minuit is a French publishing house founded clandestinely in 1941 under the occupation, later publisher of Samuel Beckett and the Nouveau Roman.

Editions of Dungeons & Dragons

Editions of Dungeons & Dragons: the game's versions since 1974, from Gygax and Arneson's original white box through AD&D 1e/2e, d20 3e/3.5, tactical 4e, and 5e (2014) with its 2024 revision, called 5.5e on D&D Beyond.

Editor war

The editor war, also known as Emacs vs. vi, is the long-running, mostly humorous dispute among programmers over whether vi or Emacs is the better Unix text editor.

Editorial

Editorial (leader, leading article): an unsigned opinion article expressing the editor's or editorial board's collective view on news or issues, distinct from signed op-eds and from neutral news reporting.

Editorial Costa Rica

Editorial Costa Rica is the state publishing house of Costa Rica, created by law in 1959 to publish literary, artistic, and scientific works by Costa Rican authors.

Editorial independence

Editorial independence: the principle that publication decisions are made solely on merit by editors, insulated from owners, advertisers, sponsors, and funders, per COPE, WAME, ICMJE, and media law.

Editorial Losada

Editorial Losada is an Argentine publishing house founded in Buenos Aires in 1938 by the Spanish publisher Gonzalo Losada, central to the golden age of Argentine publishing and the Spanish republican exile.

Editorial Sudamericana

Editorial Sudamericana is an Argentine publishing house founded in Buenos Aires in 1939, known for publishing the Latin American Boom, including García Márquez's Cien años de soledad.

Editors (band)

Editors are an English rock band formed in 2002 in Stafford (earlier names Pilot, The Pride, Snowfield), based in Birmingham; a post-punk revival band behind The Back Room, two UK No. 1 albums, and the 2026 record Surface, Echo & Sound.

Edits (app)

Edits is a free mobile video-editing app from Meta for short-form video creators, announced in January 2025 and released globally for iOS and Android in April 2025.