Carina’s Reviews > In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon > Status Update

S. 320
"Throughout her life Mary Seacole demonstrated an independence of mind and sprit that bucked every prevailing convention: racial, sexual abd social. She fought hard to retain an independanr lifestyle as a self-starting, self-supporting woman in a white man's world."

"She was, in every way, a unique exception to the social rules of the day and favoured as a practitioner regardless of her medical marginality, her Blackness and her femaleness." p. 276