Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole, William L. Andrews (, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
29 November 1990

Biography: general; Memoirs; Crimean War; Black & Asian studies; Nursing

Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

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"Written in 1857 by a free-born Jamaican Creole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands presents a special kind of success story.

With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole recounts her childhood as a daughter of a Scottish army officer and free black boardinghouse keeper, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield ""doctress"" in the Crimean War.

Seeking to reconcile her desire for economic stability and worldly recognition with the more socially acceptable role of selfless helpmate to men, Mary Seacole emerges as an independent and respected maternal figure, the model of female achievement in Victorian culture, and a symbol of ""home"" to British soldiers alienated by war."

By: Mary Seacole
Introduction by: William L. Andrews ( University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 118mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 194g
ISBN: 9780195066722
ISBN 10: 0195066723
Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 29 November 1990
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active