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The doctress : Mary Seacole of Jamaica / produced by Video for Change, Jamaica and the Mary Seacole Foundation in partnership with UNESCO/IPDC ; producer, Hilary Nicholson ; writer, director, Cynthia Wilmot.
LIBRA DVD 022 450
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881.
- Seacole, Mary.
- Crimean War, 1853-1856--Women.
- Crimean War, 1853-1856.
- Nurses--Jamaica--Biography.
- Nurses.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Doctress Mary Seacole
- Mary Seacole of Jamaica
- Mary Seacole story
- Place of Publication:
- [Kingston, Jamaica] : Video for Change, Jamaica, [2003]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields-and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She purveyed homemade pickles in England; she mined for gold in Panama. Yet Punch, the Times, the Illustrated London News all ardently touted her, and Queen Victoria herself entertained her. Mary Seacole-childless widow of Horatio Nelson's godson and "good ole Mother Seacole" to the soldiers at Sebastopol-was Britain's first black heroine."--From a short summary of Jane Robinson's biography of Seacole.
- Participant:
- Marguerite Newland, Sabrena McDonald.
- Credits:
- Camera, Jeremy Rogers; editors, Castelle Barnes, Mark A. Gentles; music, Jamaica Folk Singers.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2003.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- OCLC:
- 857817047
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