Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

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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ISBN 13 9781502801883
ISBN 10 1502801884
Title Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Author Mary Seacole
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Year published 2014-10-12
Number of pages 76
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.