Mary Seacole: 6 books

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole, jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a 'British Hotel' behind the lines during the Crimean War (1805-1881) This ebook presents «Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands», from Mary...

Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to the Crimea where she acted as doctor and 'mother'...

Famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby...

Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war was met with racism...

MY BIRTH AND PARENTAGE – EARLY TASTES AND TRAVELS – MARRIAGE, AND WIDOWHOOD.

The autobiography of Mary Jane Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who travelled great distances in order to heal the sick and wounded during the Crimean War.This was the first autobiography to be written by a black woman in Britain.