Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (London: Blackwood, 1857), PP. 14–15, 18–19, 32, 43, 46, 47–8.
Year: 2020

Mary Grant Seacole was a woman of mixed race, born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805. She learned nursing skills from her Jamaican mother who kept a home for invalid soldiers. By the time of the Crimean War, Seacole was a widow. She approached the War Office in London, desiring to become an army nurse. When she was turned down, Seacole funded her own passage to the Crimea. She established the British Hotel near Balaclava at a spot she called Spring Hill. Here she provided food and lodging to sick and