Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2005
Summary
Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole’s offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to the Crimea where she acted as doctor and ‘mother’ to wounded soldiers while running her business, the ‘British Hotel’. A witness to key battles, she gives vivid accounts of how she coped with disease, bombardment and other hardships at the Cri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140439021 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140439021 |
| Author: | Mary Seacole, Sara Salih |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2005 |
| Weight: | 211g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole was born to a Scottish soldier father and free black mother in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805. She travelled to England in the 1850s after building her reputation as a nurse. Her work in the Crimea during the war earned her the Crimean medal and she played a crucial role in opening up the medical and nursing professions to women. She died in obscurity in England in 1881.
Sara Salih is Assistant Professor in English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Judith Butler (Routledge 2002), and the editor, with Judith Butler, of The Judith Butler Reader (Blackwell, 2004). She is currently working on a book about representations of ‘brown’ women in England and Jamaica from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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