Mary Seacole and the Virtual Nation
Journal: Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal
Year: 2019

<p class="p1">Mary Seacole, the so-called “Jamaican Nightingale” and proprietress of the “British Hotel,” was valorized for tending to injured British soldiers stationed in the Crimea. This period of her life, described in her travelogue, <em>The Amazing Adventures of Mrs. Seacole</em>, has been the focus of ample critical inquiry.<span class="s2">1 </span>She was at once a British colonial subject and yet a national icon, a “yellow woman” and yet adoptive “mother” to countless white soldier-son