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About 292 pages (87,703 words) in 12 products |
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| Name: |
Mary Jane Grant Seacole | | Birth Date: |
May, 1805 | | Death Date: |
May 14, 1881 | | Nationality: |
British | | Ethnicity: |
Jamaican, Creole, Scottish | | Gender: |
Female |
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 Biography of Mary Jane Grant Seacole
2,947 words, approx. 10 pages
 A freeborn Jamaican of Creole descent, Mary Jane Grant Seacole enjoyed a remarkable life in traveling to the Bahamas, Haiti, Cuba, England, and the Isthmus of Panama. She is best known, however, for her travels in the Crimea during the Crimean War.... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Mary Seacole Information
7,235 words, approx. 24 pages
 Mary Jane Seacole (1805 — 14 May 1881) was a mixed-race British nurse. Born in Jamaica, she operated boarding houses in Panama and Crimea while simultaneously treating the sick. Seacole was taught herbal remedies and folk medicine by her mother....
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Sandra Gunning
13,184 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Gunning discusses Seacole's ability to successfully integrate herself into a wide variety of communities, as reflected in her autobiography. The critic also evaluates the different ways in which Wonderful Adventures has been appropriated by British and American scholars.
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Critical Essay by Catherine Judd
11,347 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Judd criticizes Seacole's narrative for accepting her subject status from England. She explores Seacole's text as a Homeric epic and discusses how Seacole creates a heroic self.
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Critical Essay by Amy Robinson
9,383 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Robinson discusses how Seacole negotiates her marginal identity as a Creole woman and describes the maneuvers necessary to become a prominent member of society in Victorian England.
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