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 ...

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 ...

Marys Seacole is as much a psychological biography as it is a physical one, with great pains taken to explore the tortured relationship between the mixed-race nurse and her Creole mother. The ...

Home Culture & Life Books the week recommends In Search of Mary Seacole: a ‘wonderfully informative’ biography Helen Rappaport sets out to bring ‘clarity to Seacole’s life’ ...

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 ...

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.