THE ATHENAEUMWonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many LandsMary Seacole
Medicine
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textMary Seacole learned doctoring from her mother, who kept a lodging house for invalid soldiers in Kingston, Jamaica, and she nursed cholera in Panama before the War Office turned her down as a nurse for the Crimea. She went anyway, at her own expense, and kept the British Hotel near Balaclava, feeding and dosing the soldiers and going out to the wounded after the fighting. Her book of 1857 is one of the first autobiographies by a Black woman in Britain.
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- Project Gutenberg, eBook #23031. In the public domain in the United States.