Chapter XIV of Wonderful Adventures describes the meals and supplies provided to officers. [70] In 1853, soon after arriving home, Seacole was asked by the Jamaican medical authorities to provide nursing care to victims of a severe outbreak of yellow fever. [42] She later became known to the European military visitors to Jamaica who often stayed at Blundell Hall. [166] The NHS Seacole Centre in Surrey was opened on 4 May 2020, following a campaign led by Patrick Vernon, a former NHS manager. [70] Seacole replied firmly that she did not "appreciate your friend's kind wishes with respect to my complexion. In the conclusion to her autobiography, she records that she "took the opportunity" to visit "yet other lands" on her return journey, although Robinson attributes this to her impecunious state requiring a roundabout trip. Christodoulou, Glenn, "Honouring Seacole". If it had been as dark as any nigger's, I should have been just as happy and just as useful, and as much respected by those whose respect I value." "The Enigma of Arrival: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands,". An article by Lynn McDonald in The Times Literary Supplement asked "How did Mary Seacole come to be viewed as a pioneer of modern nursing? Patrick Vernon opines that a lot of the claims that Seacole's achievements were exaggerated came from an English elite that was determined to suppress and hide the black contribution in Britain. Most of the animals caught diseases from their owners, and she would cure them with homemade remedies. "[95] When he related Seacole's inquiries to Nightingale, she replied "with a smile: 'I should like to see her before she leaves, as I hear she has done a deal of good for the poor soldiers. She soon added the services of a barber. She also travelled the Caribbean, visiting the British colony of New Providence in The Bahamas, the Spanish colony of Cuba, and the new republic of Haiti. However, creditors who had supplied her firm in Crimea were in pursuit. [117] She attended a celebratory dinner for 2,000 soldiers at Royal Surrey Gardens in Kennington on 25 August 1856, at which Nightingale was chief guest of honour. [49], Mary Seacole spent some years in the household of an elderly woman, whom she called her "kind patroness",[26] before returning to her mother. [110] The Treaty of Paris was signed on 30 March 1856, after which the soldiers left Crimea. [167], An annual prize to recognise and develop leadership in nurses, midwives and health visitors in the National Health Service was named Seacole,[168] to "acknowledge her achievements". [160][161] The portrait identified as Seacole in 2005 was used for one of ten first-class stamps showing important Britons, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery. [6] Seacole was arguably the first nurse practitioner.[10][14]. Mary Jane Seacole was born Mary Jane Grant in Kingston, in the Colony of Jamaica,[23] the daughter of James Grant, a Scottish[24][25] Lieutenant in the British Army,[26] and a free Jamaican woman. Their prospects were little better when they arrived at the poorly staffed, unsanitary and overcrowded hospitals which were the only medical provision for the wounded. Seacole told him of her encounter with Nightingale at the Barrack Hospital: "You must know, M Soyer, that Miss Nightingale is very fond of me. Seacole records these travels, but omits mention of significant current events, such as the Christmas Rebellion in Jamaica of 1831, the partial abolition of slavery in 1834,[55] and the full abolition of slavery in 1838.[56]. endstream endobj startxref [99] In a dispatch written on 14 September 1855, William Howard Russell, special correspondent of The Times, wrote that she was a "warm and successful physician, who doctors and cures all manner of men with extraordinary success. [76][84] The ship called at Malta, where Seacole encountered a doctor who had recently left Scutari. She arrived in August 1856 and opened a canteen with Day at Aldershot, but the venture failed through lack of funds. [179], A two-dimensional sculpture of Seacole was erected in Paddington in 2013. The fund burgeoned, and Seacole was able to buy land on Duke Street in Kingston, near New Blundell Hall, where she built a bungalow as her new home, plus a larger property to rent out. "[130], A 200-page autobiographical account of her travels was published in July 1857 by James Blackwood as Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, the first autobiography written by a black woman in Britain.

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