Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Hardback
by Mary Seacole
Part of the The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers series
Hardback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 1 black and white drawing
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:28/07/1988
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- ISBN:9780195052497
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 1 black and white drawing
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:28/07/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195052497
