| Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Revised Edition Contributor(s): Seacole, Mary (Author), Andrews, William L. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0195052498 ISBN-13: 9780195052497 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $93.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 87025375 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 4.96" W x 6.82" (0.61 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Russia - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |