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Mary Seacole : the most famous black woman of the Victorian Age
- Author
- Robinson, Jane, 1959-
- Title
- Mary Seacole : the most famous black woman of the Victorian Age / Jane Robinson.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Carroll & Graf, c2004.
- Description
- xiv, 233, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-223) and index.
- Contents
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- A female Ulysses
- Daughter and doctress
- Up and doing
- An inclination to Rove
- Popmp, pride and circumstance
- Enjoying it amazingly
- Comfort and order
- Proud and unprotected
- A bold front to fortune
- The Crimean heroine
- Age and consequence.
- [Summary]
- Illuminating one of the unsung heroes of the Crimean War, the author presents the remarkable life of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican woman who fought cholera and yellow fever in the Crimea and later founded the British Hotel.
- Subject headings
- Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881.
- Medical subjects
- Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881.
- Subject headings
- Nurses--Jamaica--Biography. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Women.
- Medical subjects
- Nurses. Military Nursing--history. Blacks Women. Crimean War. Great Britain. Jamaica--ethnology.
- Genre heading
- Biography.
- ISBN
- 078671414X 9780786714148