Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea

『Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea』
Jane Robinson（historian）
Robinson Publishing（2006）

　I read the book "Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea".
　When I read books about Florence Nightingale, I wanted to learn about similar women from the same era, so I read this book.
　This book is a biography of Mary Seacole, who is famous for her medical service in the Crimean War.
　She was born in Jamaica; her father was Scottish, her mother was Jamaican.
　She treated cholera with herbs. She conducted an autopsy on the baby who died from cholera. She was more of a doctor than a nurse.
　When the Crimean War started, she decided to go to the battlefield, Nightingale,the leader of the nurses, rejected her, so she went to Crimea at her own expense.
　In the war, Nightingale was in the city of Scutari, Seacole was in the city of Balaklava, so Nightingale was called "Scutari's Lady with the Lamp", Seacole was called "Balaklava's Creole with the tea mug".
　Nightingale was hostile to Seacole, so she told her friends that Balaklava was a brothel and that Seacole had an illegitimate child.
　Seacole wanted to just save people, whereas Nightingale wanted to establish the profession of nursing and change the world. Nightingale saw Seacole as obstacle, because Nightingale's nurses kept very strict discipline, but Seacole's nurses sometimes caused trouble.
　It was very unfortunate that this two great people couldn't get long with each other.
　This book has a lot of difficult words because it was written in British English and had quotations from letters at that time.
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タグ：Jane Robinson