Writer-Travellers and Fugitives
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2019

Exploring the trope of the 'insider-outsider' which recurs across three centuries of black and Asian British writing, this chapter considers nineteenth-century travellers of African and Asian descent as they made their way in and through Britain. In 1857, following her arrival in Britain after working as a nurse in the Crimea, Mary Seacole published her Wonderful Adventures … in Many Lands. This autobiographical account of her travels casts her quest for economic stability as a series of travel