Name: The Extraordinary Life of Mary Seacole
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ISBN: 9780241372777

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Puffin Book Uk - Penguin Group Uk

Author

Puffin

Year

2019

Language

English

ISBN13

9780241372777

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The Extraordinary Life of Mary Seacole

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Synopsis "The Extraordinary Life of Mary Seacole "

Mary Grant was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a Scottish army officer and her mother a free black woman who ran a boarding house in Kingston. Mary's mother also treated people who become ill. She was a great believer in the herbal medicines. These medicines were based on the knowledge of slaves brought from Africa. This knowledge was passed on to Mary and later she also become a 'doctress'.On 10th November 1836 she married in Kingston one of her mother's resident guests Edwin Horatio Seacole but she was soon widowed. According to her biographer Alan Palmer With her sister Louisa she ran the family boarding house for several years supervising its reconstruction after Kingston's great fire in 1843. She nursed cases of cholera and yellow fever in Jamaica and at Las Cruces in Panama where for more than two years she helped her brother manage a hotel. On returning to Jamaica she was briefly nursing superintendent at Up Park military camp