In this long-awaited biography, Helen Rappaport sets out to bring “clarity to Seacole’s life”, a task made particularly challenging owing to the patchiness of much of the evidence, and by ...

Historian Rappaport (After the Romanovs) delivers a doggedly researched biography of Mary Seacole, née Grant (c. 1805–1881), the Jamaican woman whose roles as caregiver, nurse, and shopkeeper ...

Flowers are placed near the statue of Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole on 23 March 2021 (Image credit: Jonathan Brady/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Page 2 of 3: ...

From there, we're back to Mary Seacole and reports of hotels for the infirm that she established in Kingston and then Crimea as periods elide, moods blur, and we're whooshed through a patchwork quilt ...

When Florence Nightingale was recruiting nurses, an accomplished nurse from Jamaica named Mary Seacole traveled to London but was repeatedly rejected. Seacole wrote: "Did these ladies shrink from ...

Frenetically paced ‘Marys Seacole’ journeys across time and place for trailblazer’s fascinating story No matter the century or the circumstance, woman-as-caregiver is a role as old as time ...

Helen Rappaport’s “In Search of Mary Seacole” gives a Black nursing legend her due. By Linda Villarosa When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Mary Seacole was the pioneering Jamaican nurse who bravely voyaged to heal soldiers in the Crimean War. She was a traveller, a hotelier and a businesswoman.