Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Paperback / softback
by Mary Seacole
Part of the The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers series
Paperback / softback
Description
Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.
In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a `doctress' during the Crimean War; and became a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain.
As this work shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as ripe taste for sarcasm.
Frequently we see her joyfully rise to mock the limitations artificially imposed on her as a black woman.
She emerges from her writings as an individual with a zest for travel, adventure, and independence, a stimulating and inspiring figure.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, 1 drawing
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:25/04/1991
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- ISBN:9780195066722
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, 1 drawing
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:25/04/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195066722
