Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands / Mary Seacole ; with an introduction by William L. Andrews.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881, author.

Contributor:

• Andrews, William L., 1946- writer of introduction.
• Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Schomberg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
• The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881.
• Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881--Travel.
• Crimean War, 1853-1856--Personal narratives, Jamaican.
• Women, Black--Jamaica--Biography.
• Women, Black.
• Travel.
• Jamaica.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• Autobiographies.
• Personal narratives.

Penn Provenance:

• Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiv, xii, 200 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustration ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

• Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands
• Wonderful adventures

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Summary:

No autobiography by an Afro-American woman of the nineteenth century defies classification more than Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857). A free-born Jamaican, evidently well protected from the tentacles of slavery, Mary Jane Grant Seacole did not write her narrative expressly to advance the cause of antislavery, as so many Afro-American women autobiographers did during her era.

Notes:

• Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Blackwood, 1857.
• "Whenever possible, the volumes in this set were reproduced directly from original materials. When availability, physical condition of original texts, or other circumstances prohibited his, volumes or portions of volumes were reset."--Publisher's Note.
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1989

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0195052498

OCLC:

16832032