Jamaican Woman Charts Path to English Glory

From: The Crisis | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Jamaican Woman Charts Path to English Glory

Mary Seacole: The Most Famous Black Woman of the Victorian Age

By Jane Robinson (Caroll & Graff, $25)

Even if you recognize Mary Seacole's name from history (and many Americans won't), deciding who to believe she was remains a quagmire, for she was among the more slippery characters of the Victorian age. To many, she was a beloved nurse and mother figure to British soldiers in need. To others, including her contemporary, the prudish Florence Nightingale, she was "a woman of bad character," a charlatan. Biographical information on her early life ...

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