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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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25 June 2020
208 pages
9781529040326
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

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There is distressingly little black prose of consequence to be found in the English canon before the 20th century. Mary Seacole stands out as a gloriously entertaining exception, a Caribbean witness to the black experience in the Victorian age who deserves to be much better known
Traveller, entrepreneur, healer and woman of colour, Mary Seacole is a singular and fascinating figure