In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

ISBN-13: 9781398504455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Helen Rappaport

Opis

An in-depth biography of Mary Seacole that unveils the truth about her remarkable achievements and debunks the many myths about her life

Recenzje

'I salute Helen Rappaport for taking us to this place so completely with all her imagination, research and thinking. This is an astonishingly rich story... This wonderfully informative book presents Seacole in all her roundness: a ministering angel who was no angel; a driven woman who basked in adulation, and was forgotten for 90 years after her death.' Ysenda Maxtone Graham The Times

O autorze

Helen Rappaport was born in Bromley, Kent, and studied Russian at Leeds University, before working as a translator and copy editor. She has been a full-time writer for more than twenty-three years, and in 2003 discovered and purchased an 1869 portrait of Mary Seacole that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, sparking a long investigation into Seacole's life and career.