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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Seacole, Mary
Andrews, William L.

Paperback

Series: The ^Aschomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresCaribbean History

ISBN10: 0195066723
ISBN13: 9780195066722
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 29 1990
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.40 Depth: 5.50
Language: English
Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica of the early 19th century. In her long and varied life, she was to travel in Central America, Russia and Europe, find work as a inn-keeper and as a doctress during the Crimean War, and become a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain. As this autobiography shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as a 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 most un-Victorian zest for travel, adventure and independence.

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