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Special offer
for Royal College of Nursing [RCN]
members during October, Black History
Month 2009
RCN members can,
until 31 October 2009, buy
this short biography of Mary Seacole at
an exclusive price of £1.99 [rather than
the original price of £4.99].
To order a copy of
A short history of Mary Seacole
by Professor Elizabeth Anionwu call RCN
Direct on 0345 772 6100, then select
option 3 and quote publication code 002
499.
You can now read Mary Seacole's
1857 autobiography
'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands' FREE online via:
- A celebration of Women Writers as
part of Build A Book -
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/seacole/adventures/adventures.html
or
- The Project Gutenberg
online library via:
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=588279
Mary Seacole's Autobiography
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
is the title of Mary Seacole's autobiography that was
originally published in 1857 and, due to demand, was
reprinted in 1858. This is a wonderful read!!
The first subsequent edition was published by Falling Wall
Press in 1984, due to the efforts of the editors Ziggi
Alexander and Audrey Dewjee. They did a remarkable
piece of research about aspects of Mary Seacole's life which
can be read in their very detailed introduction. Click
here to listen to an interview that they gave on
BBC Woman's Hour on 9th February 2004. BBC
Radio 4 chose this autobiography as their Book of the Week,
during the week beginning Monday 26th April 2004 with
extracts read by the actress Adjoah Andoh. Read a review of
Mary's autobiography by Mark Bostridge that appeared in the
Guardian on 14 February 2004.
Penguin Classics have now published an edition of
the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
in February 2005. Edited by Sara Salih, Professor
of English at the University of Toronto, the price is
£9.99. ISBN: 0140439021
Image courtesy Penguin Classics.
Jane Robinson's biography entitled
Mary Seacole, The Charismatic Black Nurse who
became a heroine of the Crimea published by
Constable (London) and launched on the 27th January
2005. Paperback: £12.99. ISBN: 1 84119
6770 Website:
www.jane-robinson.com
November 2006
A 2nd and slightly revised paperback
edition of the wonderful biography of Mary Seacole by
Jane Robinson has been published by
Robinson Press.
On the 26 July 2005 the Royal
College of Nursing launched
‘A short history of Mary Seacole: a resource for nurses
and students’ written by Professor Elizabeth
Anionwu.
This Royal College of Nursing publication
‘A short history of Mary Seacole: a resource for nurses
and students’ written by Professor Elizabeth
Anionwu is now available at the reduced price of £3.00
(£2.40 for RCN members but just £1.99 during October
2009) from
RCNDIRECT on 0345 772 6100, press option 3 and quote publication code
002 499.
Wednesday 9th May 2007
Launch of Dutch version of
Mary's autobiography:
Wonderbaarlijke Avonturen... (Wonderful
Adventures....)
The very
first Mary Seacole Symposium in Breda, Holland witnessed
the launch of an exciting updated Dutch version of Mary's
autobiography book that was recently discovered to have been
published in 1857!
For more details about
the book visit:
www.symposium-hbo-verpleegkunde.blogspot.com/
or email Mrs
Corry Derks:
cjam.derks@avans.nl
May 2007:
Hoorah for Mary Seacole by Trish Cooke [http://www.trishcooke.co.uk/bookshop.htm]
The historian Helen Rappaport informs
me that that her book 'No Place for Ladies: The Untold
Story of Women in the Crimean War' - is being published
22 February 2007, Aurum Press.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Place-Ladies-Untold-Crimean/dp/1845132203/ref=sr_11_1/202-9335681-7261469?ie=UTF8
Helen says "It has quite a bit on Mary and in particular
a substantial chapter to herself with new eye witness
testimony I discovered during my research".
12 July 2005 A new
biography of Mary Seacole by Ron Ramdin published by
Haus Publishing as part of their Life and Times
series of biographies.
Saturday 23
July 2005: Mother Seacole - A short
story. The story was launched at the
Lambeth Riverside Festival event on Saturday 23 July
at Walnut Tree Walk, School, Walnut Tree Walk,
London, SE11. Jason Young the author is a published
writer of historical fiction, who has worked for a
number of media and publishing companies. He is the
founder and president of the Tooting and Balham
Writers’ Circle (www.writers-circles.com/tooting.html).
Published by History & Social Action Publications,
18 Ridge Rd, Mitcham, CR4 2ET.
www.seancreighton.co.uk
Price £2, plus 50p (p&p).
September 2005
Published by London Borough of Southwark.
Speak of Me As I Am. The Black Presence in
Southwark Since 1600. By Stephen
Bourne
Paperback £7.99
In Speak of Me As I Am, Southwark historian
Stephen Bourne documents the lives of a number of
Black historical figures who have been associated
with the London Borough of Southwark. Those featured
in the book include Shakespearean actor Ira
Aldridge; Crimean nurse Mary Seacole;
community leader Dr. Harold Moody; singer and
activist Paul Robeson and Southwark’s first Black
Mayor Sam King.
Stephen Bourne is a regular contributor to Black
Filmmaker magazine and is the author of Black
in the British Frame: The Black Experience in
British Film and Television (2001).
March 2005 Emma Lynch has
written The Life of Mary
Seacole, aimed at children, in the Heinemann series 'Life of...'
Can be ordered via
Amazon
Examples of other books about Mary
Seacole - all below are aimed at children
Castor, H & Willey L.,
Mary Seacole
(Famous People, Famous Lives series).
Franklin Watts.
2001. ISBN: 0749643137.
Collicott, Sylvia L.,
The Story of Mary Seacole
UK Macmillan Education.
2003. ISBN: 03333955307.
Godwin, Sam & Astill, Alison.,
Mary Seacole: A Story from the Crimean War
Hodder Wayland,
2001. 0750237686
Huntley Eric L.,
Two Lives. Florence Nightingale and Mary
Seacole.
Bogle-L'Ouverture Press Ltd,
1993. ISBN: 0904521915.
Malam, J.,
Mary Seacole.
Evans Brothers Ltd,
1999. ISBN: 0237528177.
Moorcroft C, Magnusson M and Wood S.
Mary Seacole. ISBN:
1862153493.
(Channel Four Learning Ltd, 1998) that
accompanies a DVD that includes Mary Seacole in the
Stop, Look, Listen Famous People series
Williams Brian
The Life and World of Mary Seacole
Heinemann Library
2003. ISBN: 0431147841). Aimed at 8 to 11
year olds: £10.99.
Last updated:
12/10/2009
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