Miss Edith Louise Rosenbaum, better known as Edith Russell, was reporting on French fashions at Paris' Easter Sunday races and decided to return to the states on the Titanic. She boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg. She held ticket 17613 which cost Ł27 14s 5d, and occupied cabin A-11. She eventually left the Titanic on lifeboat 11. She traveled extensively during her life, weathered other catastrophes including car accidents, tornados and even another shipwreck, and attempted without success to find a publisher for her account of the Titanic sinking. World War I provided Edith with the opportunity to become possibly the first female war correspondent as she spent time in the trenches with the troops. She died in London on April 4, 1975 at the age of 98, never having married and leaving only a couple of scattered cousins as survivors. "I'm accident prone," she said. "I've been in shipwrecks, car crashes, fires, floods and tornadoes. I've had every disaster but bubonic plague and a husband." more...