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 h...
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In the following essay, Paquet explores Seacole's relationship to colonial England in the aftermath of slavery and how she positions herself in that society.
The republication of The History...
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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 Eng...
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In the following essay, Fish explores how the mobility of Nancy Prince and Seacole, two free-born black women, helped to shape their identities and impacted the travel-narrative genre.
Travel, with...
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In the following essay, McKenna analyzes the hegemony that colonizing cultures have over their conquests and the dynamic created when the colonized both accept and reject the new culture.
The Engli...
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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...
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In the following essay, Baggett discusses the contradiction between Seacole's desire to be a part of British culture and her natural tendency toward her native Jamaican heritage.
Recent atte...
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In the following essay, Hawthorne explores first-generation emancipated Caribbean subjects. Focusing on Mary Seacole's autobiography, she places the work within the ideological and literary con...
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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 th...
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In the following excerpt, Romero-Cesareo examines Seacole's use of the role of motherhood as an ennobling and legitimizing tool in her autobiography.
The sea, alas! It is the only place to w...
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Mary Jane Grant Seacole
Critical Essay by Sandra Pouchet Paquet
