Mary Seacole by Jane Robinson

Mary Seacole

Jane Robinson

233 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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On the outbreak of the Crimean War, she arrived in London desperate to join Florence Nightingale at the Front, but the authorities refused to see her. Being black, nearly 50, rather stout, and gloriously loud in every way, she was obviously unsuit...

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