Live Arts' production of "Marys Seacole" tells the story of a 19th-century Jamaican nurse who cared for soldiers on the ...
Mary Seacole (1805 - 1881) was born in the Caribbean to a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother. At the outbreak of The Crimean War she travelled to England hoping to join Florence Nightingale's ...
She lived an exciting life, travelling to many different countries and nursing wounded soldiers. She wanted to travel to the Crimean War to help British troops but the Government refused.