Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

The early 19th century saw the birth of Mary Seacole in Jamaica as a free black lady. She travelled around Central America Russia and Europe over her lengthy and varied life worked as a doctress and innkeeper during the Crimean War and rose to fame as a British folk hero and wrote her own biography. This autobiography demonstrates Mary Seacoles keen sense of hypocrisy and her fondness for sarcasm. She frequently stands up happily to criticize the false restrictions placed on her because she is a black woman. She comes through in her writings as a unique person with a very un-Victorian desire for freedom travel and adventure.