num_pages: 256
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.
language: English
title: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
titlecomplete: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
characters: Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale
genres: Historical, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, Autobiography, Travel, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 1312
places: Jamaica, Crimea, Panama
publisher: Oxford University Press