Healers

Mary Seacole

Nurse and Businesswoman

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General Reference

Medicine Atlas. "Mary Seacole." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/mary-seacole.

APA Style

Medicine Atlas. (n.d.). Mary Seacole. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/mary-seacole

BibTeX

@misc{medicineatlas-mary-seacole,
  author = {Medicine Atlas},
  title = {Mary Seacole},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/mary-seacole},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain.

Facts

Birth Year

1805 1

the subject's own accountWikidata records only year precision for the birth date (1805); the exact day is not established.

Death Yearthe subject's own account

1881 1

Death Datethe subject's own account

1881-05-14 1

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1. Mary Seacole (Wikipedia)

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Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain.

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