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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.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
• Author: Mary Seacole
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780195052497
• ISBN: 0195052498
• ID: 04863872
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 486 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 145 × 22 mm

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