Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Name: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Brand: Oxford University Press
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By Mary Seacole

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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.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 252
Release Date:: 1988-04-01
Publication Date:: 1988-04-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0195052498
ISBN13:: 9780195052497
Weight:: 491 g
Height:: 145 cm
Width:: 222 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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