Mary seacole biography book review

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        2. She complains that Seacole's “false modesty and evasiveness is disappointing for the reader, let alone the frustrated biographer sighing about.
        3. Rappaport's book is.
        4. Interesting book about a here to fore unknown Black Briton who has been voted the number one best black person in British history in England.
        5. As this autobiography shows, Mary Seacole had a sharp instinct for hypocrisy as well as a ripe taste for sarcasm.

          6. Rappaport's book is....

          In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian

          Biographer Helen Rappaport has brought to new life the dynamic, daring, caregiving Mary Seacole, whose memory was for many years forgotten, in this remarkable look at history, racial issues, medical treatment and women’s liberation.

          Seacole was born in Jamaica in to a local woman, Rebecca Grant, and a Scottish father serving in the British military.

          Grant ran a boarding house and practiced her healing skills based on traditional herbal remedies. Both these skill sets were inherited by Seacole. She married a British merchant who may have wanted her for her nursing abilities, as he was an invalid whose passing invoked her wanderlust.

          She journeyed on her own to Panama, where her brother operated a boarding house, and she learned even more about standard medical practice from his patrons.

          "Biographer Helen Rappaport has brought to new life the dynamic, daring, caregiving Mary Seacole,