The wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole

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Arriving in Crimea, Mary Seacole managed to convince Florence Nightingale to meet her at Barrack Hospital in Shkodra. She herself reports that the “lady with the lamp” was very friendly:

“What do you want, Mrs. Seacole? Is there anything we can do for you? If it is in my power, I will be very happy.”

The incredible adventure, a bestseller at the time and one of the few accounts of the black experience in the Victorian era, inexplicably reaches Italy only after a century and a half. What emerges of Mary Seacole is an immense willpower and dogged determination with which she implemented her plans, struggling against the racial and gender prejudices that characterized the era in which she lived. Whatever the full story of her long and unusual life, Mary Seacole is a strangely modern figure. He risked his life to care for the military casualties of a catastrophic war and shared with the troops the horrors of a brutal, Victorian conflict.

As you immerse yourself in this adventure, you can’t help but admire her for the curiosity with which she approaches medicine, implementing various remedies and learning from her mistakes, delving into extreme situations where anyone’s sensibilities would have been put to the test. “Mom.” Seacole was the mother of many soldiers far from home during the Crimean War, that glimmer of domestic warmth enriched by professional mastery. By retracing his adventures, we will be able to get a picture of the world at the time in which he lived: Central America, London, Crimea, and the endless journeys to reach each destination. In 2017, The Guardian listed his autobiography as one of the best 100 nonfiction (non-fiction) books.

“We had little time to think about the dead. Our task was to take care of those dying who could still be saved. The ground was completely covered with the wounded. Some were calm and resigned, others impatient and agitated, and still others filled the silence with their cries of pain, and all were eager for water, or other substantial things, and grateful to those who provided them.”

Translation: Anna Uez
Introduction: Alessandro Stievano
Contributors: Camilla Zonzini, Hamilton Dollaku, Simone Ghiribelli

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