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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 05 hours and 57 minutes

Language: English

I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be unique in literature. If singleness of heart, true charity, and Christian works; if trials and sufferings, dangers and perils, encountered boldly by a helpless woman on her errand of mercy in the camp and in the battle-field, can excite sympathy or move curiosity, Mary Seacole will have many friends and many readers. She is no Anna Comnena, who presents us with a verbose history, but a plain truth-speaking woman, who has lived an adventurous life amid scenes which have never yet found a historian among the actors on the stage where they passed. I have witnessed her devotion and her courage; I have already borne testimony to her services to all who needed them. She is the first who has redeemed the name of “sutler” from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness, and plunder; and I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead. (Summary from the Preface by W. H. Russell)

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01 - Chapter I (Cori Samuel)
02 - Chapter II (Cori Samuel)
03 - Chapter III (Cori Samuel)
04 - Chapter IV (Cori Samuel)
05 - Chapter V (Cori Samuel)
06 - Chapter VI (Cori Samuel)
07 - Chapter VII (Cori Samuel)
08 - Chapter VIII (Cori Samuel)
09 - Chapter IX (Cori Samuel)
10 - Chapter X (Cori Samuel)
11 - Chapter XI (Cori Samuel)
12 - Chapter XII (Cori Samuel)
13 - Chapter XIII (Cori Samuel)
14 - Chapter XIV (Cori Samuel)
15 - Chapter XV (Cori Samuel)
16 - Chapter XVI (Cori Samuel)
17 - Chapter XVII (Cori Samuel)
18 - Chapter XVIII (Cori Samuel)
19 - Chapter XIX (Cori Samuel)
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