{"id":29816,"date":"2013-03-25T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29816"},"modified":"2022-10-21T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:54:56","slug":"wonderful-adventures-of-mrs-seacole-in-many-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29816","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.upenn.edu\/women\/seacole\/adventures\/adventures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Blackwood Paternoster Row<br \/>\n1857<br \/>\n198 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Seacole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Seacole<\/a><\/strong> (1805-1881)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.upenn.edu\/women\/seacole\/adventures\/adventures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/digital.library.upenn.edu\/women\/seacole\/adventures\/cover.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;doctress&#8217; during the Crimean War; and became a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain. As this work shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as ripe taste for sarcasm. Frequently we see her joyfully rise to mock the limitations artificially imposed on her as a black woman. She emerges from her writings as an individual with a zest for travel, adventure, and independence, a stimulating and inspiring figure.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire book <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.upenn.edu\/women\/seacole\/adventures\/adventures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,21,28,8,17,10,25],"tags":[14174,10386,3692],"class_list":["post-29816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","category-women","tag-james-blackwood-paternoster-row","tag-mary-jane-grant-seacole","tag-mary-seacole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64029,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions\/64029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}