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- Author: Mary Seacole
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN-10: 0195052498
- ISBN-13: 9780195052497
- Format: 12.6 x 17.3 x 2.6 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Mary Seacole
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN-10: 0195052498
- ISBN-13: 9780195052497
- Format: 12.6 x 17.3 x 2.6 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
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