Mary Seacole
Biography of Mary Seacole, a pioneering nineteenth-century British-Jamaican nurse.Mary Seacole's remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a free person, the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Unlike Florence Nightingale--whose exploits sa… Celý popis ↓
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Mary Seacole
Biography of Mary Seacole, a pioneering nineteenth-century British-Jamaican nurse.Mary Seacole's remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a free person, the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Unlike Florence Nightingale--whose exploits saw her venerated as the "lady with the lamp" for generations afterward--Seacole cared for soldiers perilously close to the fighting. Ron Ramdin--who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the United Kingdom--tells the remarkable story of this woman, celebrated today as a pioneering nurse.Refused permission to serve as an army nurse, Seacole took the remarkable step of funding her own journey to the Crimean battlefront, and there, in the face of sometimes harsh opposition, she established a hotel for wounded British soldiers.
As Ramdin shows in this biography, Seacole's time in
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