Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |