Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Hardcover – April 14, 1988 9780195052497
9780195052497 / Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Hardcover – April 14, 1988
by Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (April 14, 1988) (Author)
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.
Specification: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Hardcover – April 14, 1988 9780195052497
Weight
11.3 lbs
Dimensions
6.82 × 1.01 × 4.96 in
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