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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs.Seacole in Many Lands (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Wonderful Adventures of Mrs.Seacole in Many LandsThe autobiography of Mary Seacole, the Jamaican daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black woman, who recounts her childhood in the early 19th century, her travels throughout the world and her career as an inn-keeper in Central America and a battlefield doctor during the Crimean War.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 29 November 1990
- Format: Paperback 212 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Memoirs | Literary Studies: General | Gender Studies: Women | Black & Asian Studies | Nursing | Scientific Equipment, Experiments & Techniques | European History | History Of The Americas | Crimean War
- ISBN 13: 9780195066722 ISBN 10: 0195066723
- Sales rank: 1,073,189
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Full description for Wonderful Adventures of Mrs.Seacole in Many Lands
Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a 'doctress' during the Crimean War; and became a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain. As this work shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as ripe taste for sarcasm. Frequently we see her joyfully rise to mock the limitations artificially imposed on her as a black woman. She emerges from her writings as an individual with a zest for travel, adventure, and independence, a stimulating and inspiring figure.
