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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands : Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers - Mary Seacole

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

By: Mary Seacole

Hardcover | 1 April 1988

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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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"Seacole's urbanity and cosmopolitan wit, along with her indomitable spirit and frankness about her own troubles, make her narrative one of the most readable and rewarding black women's autobiographies of the nineteenth century."--William L. Andrews, in his Introduction

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