Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
by
Mary Seacole
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195052498
ISBN-13
9780195052497
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 1988
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
486 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 14.50 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: generalMemoirsCrimean WarBlack & Asian studies
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Mrs Seacole, a free-born Jamaican daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black woman, recounts her childhood, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield 'doctress' to British troops in the Crimea.
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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