Jane Robinson
Jane Robinson is a social historian specialising in pioneering women. Her 12 books include Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education, currently in development as a TV drama series, and histories of women travellers, women in the professions and the fight for the vote. She is a Senior Associate of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical and Royal Geographical Societies.
Books by Jane Robinson
Interviews with Jane Robinson
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
by Mary Seacole -
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Victorian Lady Travellers
by Dorothy Middleton -
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Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend
by Mark Bostridge -
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Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6
by Fanny Duberly, edited by Christine Kelly -
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An American Diary
by Barbara Bodichon
The best books on Mary Seacole, recommended by Jane Robinson
The best books on Mary Seacole, recommended by Jane Robinson
Mary Seacole looked after and provided support to British troops during the Crimean War (1853-1856), setting up a hotel for sick and recovering soldiers close to the fighting near Balaclava. In her day, she was as celebrated as Florence Nightingale, but it was not until the rediscovery and publication of her diary in the 1980s that she came to be widely known as a Victorian heroine in modern times. In 2016, a memorial statue of her was unveiled in London, the first in the UK in honour of a named Black woman. Here her biographer, Jane Robinson, tells us more about the remarkable life of Mary Seacole and the world she lived in.
