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Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…
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She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…
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Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands James Blackwood Paternoster Row 1857 198 pages Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a…
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Don’t consign Mary Seacole to history, Michael Gove is urged The Independent London, England 2013-01-04 Kevin Rawlinson Petition launched to prevent Crimean War nurse being written out of school textbooks Leading black Britons have united to urge the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to abandons his plan to remove the country’s most celebrated black historical figure…
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Traveling with Her Mother’s Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race, and Location in “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” Signs Volume 26, Number 4, Globalization and Gender (Summer, 2001) pages 949-981 Sandra Gunning, Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies and Women’s Studies University of Michigan The autobiography Wonderful Adventuers of Mrs. Seacole…
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Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Gender & History Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2003 pages 487–506 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x Rhonda Frederick, Associate Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies Program Boston College Mary Seacole’s autobiography has been read as a feminist performance as well as a paradigmatic Victorian travel narrative.…
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Portrait of Crimean War Nurse Mary Seacole Acquired by National Portrait Gallery artdaily.org 2012-02-12 Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen, 1869. ©National Portrait Gallery, London. LONDON.- The only known painting of Mary Seacole, the black Victorian nurse regarded as one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Crimean War, is to remain at…
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The Invitation That Never Came: Mary Seacole After the Crimea History Today Volume 55, Issue 2 (2005) Helen Rappaport Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole. In the summer of 1856, after the last British troops had made their weary…
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“A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…