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WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS
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| By: |
Mary Seacole |
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Hardback |
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£48.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195052498 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195052497 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 1988 |
| Series: |
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Mrs Seacole, a free-born Jamaican daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black woman, recounts her childhood, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield 'doctress' to British troops in the Crimea. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
1 black and white drawing |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |