Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

di Mary Seacole (Autore)

Oxford University Press Inc, 1988

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.

• Autore: Mary Seacole
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc
• Collana: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
• Anno: 1988
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 126 x 173 mm
• Peso: 277 gr.
• EAN: 9780195052497

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