A 10ft statue of Mary Seacole (pictured) has been planned in London – but much of her fame is the undeserved product of myth-making, writes PROFESSOR LYNN MCDONALD.
^ "Correspondence on the Seacole statue", The Mary Seacole Information Website. ^ "Black figures from history must stay in the schoolbooks", The Times , 9 January 2013, p. 6.
Statue Grade II: 14 June 1897 by Sir Henry Irving. Modelled after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783), now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Siddons attended St Mary’s Church on the Green and is buried in the churchyard, near her statue. War memorial
"A quarter scale model of the planned statue in memory of pioneering nurse Mary Seacole was unveiled yesterday (Tuesday 29 October) at St Thomas' Hospital. It will be the first statue to honour a named black woman in the UK." "Quarter scale model of the planned Mary Seacole #statue #History" See more
Mary Seacole, the angel of the Crimea (23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) British history has recorded Florence Nightingale as the nurse who treated and healed the soldiers of the Crimean War, and the great heroin of nurses around the world.
Mary Seacole has been recognised for the part she played in the Crimean War, where a number of Sisters of Mercy also served. Sr Assumpta writes: 'On the 30th June 2016, I felt privileged to have been invited to the unveiling of Mary Seacole’s Statue at St Thomas’ Hospital. Mary Seacole was a Jamaican born woman and it is believed that she …
23 January 2008, at a board meeting the decision was announced as a fait accompli: “commitment to support a Mary Seacole statue at St Thomas’”. The current hospital board has added to the violation of due process by issuing blatantly false information used in support of the earlier board’s decision (see below).
Edith Mary Hart Mary Judith O’Brien In 1856, an appeal went out to nurses in both England and Ireland, and especially to religious nurses, to care for the troops fighting in the Crimean War.
The Seacole Memorial is the first named memorial statue of a black woman in the UK. Although that is interesting, what I find more intriguing is the kerfuffle accompanying its erection. Statues, it seems, are at the forefront of a new kind of history war.
Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth.
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