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
14 April 1988

Biography: general

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

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.

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: 173mm, Width: 122mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 321g
ISBN: 9780195052497
ISBN 10: 0195052498
Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 April 1988
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

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