RANDOM JOTTINGS

A blog about music, sports, theatre and rants

Long time blogger just moved to wordpress. Love music, theatre, movies, sport (tennis and cricket) and cooking. Two great daughters, two great granddaughters.

Category: Mary Seacole

  • Two biographies: Mary Seacole and Queen Alexandra

    I have two main titles I wish to highlight today, both are recently published biographies of two different women, but both linked in a curious way. First up is Mary Seacole by Helen Rappaport.  I am a great admirer of Helen's writing having read several of her titles.  Her books on the Romanovs and, in…

  • Mary Seacole – Time for her to be remembered

    Everyone has heard of Florence Nightingale the ‘lady with the lamp’ who took her company of nurses out to the Crimea during the war after hearing of the appalling conditions wounded soldiers were enduring. There have been films, books and programmes and all the stories, myths, legends movies and tv programmes focused on this person,…