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I search the web and raise money for the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal with Everyclick. Join me: http://www.everyclick.com/elizabethanionwu Please click here on Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal [www.maryseacoleappeal.org.uk/] if you would like to make an online donation. Many thanks! You can now read Mary Seacole's 1857 autobiography 'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands' FREE online via:
Mary Seacole's Autobiography
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
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. It costs cost £4.50 and can be ordered online via the Florence Nightingale Museum or over the telephone from RCNDIRECT on 0845 772 6100 quoting publication code 002499. Also a copy of the flyer can be
downloaded by
clicking here
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. 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...'
Examples of other books about Mary
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Can be ordered via