ISBN Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands book English Paperback

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.