[Gutenberg 23031] • Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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- Authors
- Seacole, Mary
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Tags
- history , jamaican , 1853-1856 -- personal narratives , classics , 1805-1881 -- travel -- ukraine -- crimea , seacole , crimean war , women , mary , travel , black -- jamaica -- biography , biography
- ISBN
- 9780195066722
- Date
- 1857-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.36 MB
- Lang
- en
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.