Mary Seacole
The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. The Times called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' - Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother's hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical techniques. On the outbreak of the Crimean War, she arrived in London desperate to join Florence Nightingale at the Front, but the authorities refused to see her. Being black, near…
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Weitere Autoren: Robinson, Mary
- ISBN: 978-1-84529-497-7
- EAN: 9781845294977
- Produktnummer: 22484001
- Verlag: Constable & Robinson
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.7 cm 240 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 240
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Jane Robinson is a writer and lecturer who specialises in history witnessed by women. She has published several popular books on women travellers and a 'secret history of enterprising women', Pandora's Daughters (Constable, 2002).
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