Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195052497)

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.

Author: Mary Seacole
ISBN-10: 0195052498
ISBN-13: 9780195052497
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/14/1988
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 6.82h x 4.96w x 1.01d