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Mary Seacole

1805 - 1881

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Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a black woman in Britain. Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a "doctress". In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Seacole is the 3,930th most popular writer (up from 4,210th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Jamaica and the 2nd most popular Jamaican Writer.

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Among writers, Mary Seacole ranks 3,930 out of 7,302. Before her are Girolamo de Rada, Emmanuel Bove, Karoline von Günderrode, Cerverí de Girona, Tadeusz Konwicki, and Richard Hammond. After her are Siamanto, Qul Ghali, Jane Dieulafoy, Andrew Marvell, Anton Pann, and Quim Monzó.

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Among people born in 1805, Mary Seacole ranks 53. Before her are Johann von Lamont, Esteban Echeverría, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Auguste Barbier, Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, and Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann. After her are Eugène Devéria, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Hugo von Mohl, and José Ballivián. Among people deceased in 1881, Mary Seacole ranks 64. Before her are August Šenoa, Tanaka Hisashige, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Jane Digby, Robert Mallet, and Ercole Dembowski. After her are Andrei Zhelyabov, Ambrose Burnside, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, Florian Ceynowa, Theodor Benfey, and Jean-Baptiste Nothomb.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Mary Seacole ranks 28 out of 189. Before her are Cedella Booker (1926), Merlene Ottey (1960), Stephen Hopkins (1958), Shaggy (1968), Patrick Ewing (1962), and Sean Paul (1973). After her are DJ Kool Herc (1955), Bunny Wailer (1947), Desmond Dekker (1941), Burning Spear (1945), Norman Manley (1893), and Veronica Campbell-Brown (1982).

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Among WRITERS In Jamaica

Among writers born in Jamaica, Mary Seacole ranks 2. Before her are Marcus Garvey (1887). After her are Leonard Howell (1898), Claude McKay (1889), Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919), Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952), Nalo Hopkinson (1960), Marlon James (1970), and Claudia Rankine (1963).

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