Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain.
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A sketch of Mary Seacole by Crimean war artist William Simpson (1823-1899), c. 1855
A sketch of Mary Seacole's British Hotel in Crimea, by Lady Alicia Blackwood (1818-1913), a friend of Florence Nightingale's who resided in the neighbouring "Zebra Vicarage"
A map illustrating Seacole's involvement in the Crimean War
Seacole was bankrupt on her return to London. Queen Victoria's nephew Count Gleichen (above) had become a friend of Seacole's in Crimea. He supported fund-raising efforts on her behalf.
Seacole, depicted as an admirer of Punch, along with her British Crimean War patients in "Our Own Vivandière", Punch, 30 May 1857
One of two known photographs of Seacole, taken for a carte de visite by Maull & Company in London (c. 1873)
Commemorative plaque at 14 Soho Square, London, W1In their orbit 1
Writers born in the 1800s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1805 to 1881 · aged 76
Written about in
28 languages
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