| Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Revised Edition Contributor(s): Seacole, Mary (Author), Andrews, William L. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0195066723 ISBN-13: 9780195066722 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1990 Annotation: No autobiography by an Afro-American woman of the nineteenth century defies classification more than Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857). A free-born Jamaican, evidently well protected from the tentacles of slavery, Mary Jane Grant Seacole did not write her narrative expressly to advance the cause of antislavery, as so many Afro-American women autobiographers did during her era. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General |
| Dewey: 947.073 |
| LCCN: 87025375 |
| Series: Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.4" W x 5.5" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica of the early 19th century. In her long and varied life, she was to travel in Central America, Russia and Europe, find work as a inn-keeper and as a doctress during the Crimean War, and become a famed heroine, the author of her own biography, in Britain. As this autobiography shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as a 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 most un-Victorian zest for travel, adventure and independence. |