Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 491 g
Reihe: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 491 g
Reihe: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
ISBN: 978-0-19-505249-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
