Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, Paperback / softback Book

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Paperback / softback

Part of the The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers series

Paperback / softback

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Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.

In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a `doctress' during the Crimean War; and became a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain.

As this work shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as 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 zest for travel, adventure, and independence, a stimulating and inspiring figure.

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