Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Rating | : | 4.36 (786 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1502801884 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 76 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-06-12 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kali said Mother Seacole's adventures makes you thirst for excitement. Mary Seacole's reputation after the Crimean War certainly rivalled that of her counterpart Florence Nightingale but for a very long time she was a forgotten footnote in history, and this probably had a lot to do with the fact she was not a white middle class woman, but was instead the . "Poor print quality" according to Glen B. The text is small and faint and difficult to read. I understand this is a budget version of the book, but quite a lot has been sacrificed in order to reduce the price, and I do not think it was worth it.. Courage and Resiliency Unclepeacock What a great unsung hero Mary Seacole. A woman of of courage and resiliency, a saver of lives. She never let racism stop her from serving suffering humanity. A nurse, a healer.bravo Mary
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Andrews, in his Introduction . "Seacole's urbanity and cosmopolitan wit, along with her indomitable spirit and frankness about her own troubles, make her narrative one of the most readable and rewarding black women's autobiographies of the nineteenth century."--William L
William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Other works include the Norton Critical Edition of Up From Slavery; The Literary Career of Charles W. He is general editor of Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Andrews is