Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

By:

Mary Seacole

Format:

Hardback

Series:

The Schomburg Library of nineteenth-century black women writers

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A far cry from the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition, this book, written in 1857, is a special kind of success story. With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole, a free-born Jamaican Creole, recounts her childhood as a daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black boarding-house keeper, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield 'doctress' to British troops in the Crimean War. She emerges as an independent and respected maternal figure, the acme of female achievement in Victorian culture, and a symbol of 'home' to British soldiers alienated by war.

Release date NZ

July 28th, 1988

Author

Mary Seacole

Series

The Schomburg Library of nineteenth-century black women writers

Contributor

Introduction by William L Andrews

Pages

256

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 black and white drawing

Dimensions

122x173x22

ISBN-13

9780195052497

Product ID

2829337

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