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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Revised)

by Seacole, Mary

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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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  • Oxford University Press Brand
  • Apr 14, 1988 Pub Date:
  • 0195052498 ISBN-10:
  • 9780195052497 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
  • 6.81 in * 0.92 in * 4.88 in Dimensions:
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