From the Black Sea to the Black Atlantic: Blackness and performativity in The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Journal: Victorians
Year: 2014

76 Victorians Journal From the Black Sea to the Black Atlantic: Blackness and performativity in The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacolein ManyLands BY DONGHEE OM Current scholarship posits that Mary Jane Grant Seacole wrote The Wonderful Adventures ofMrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) largely in her quest for acceptance by a predominantly white Victorian society.1 To a degree, this Jamaican Creole widow of mixed African and European descent had already won that acceptance—as a sutler, hotel mana