Mary Seacole part 1Mary tells of her early life in Jamaica, and how her mother, a famous healer, taught her all her healing skills. As war breaks out in the Crimea, Mary travels to England to volunteer her services to Florence Nightingale, who is setting up a hospital in the Crimea. But she is deemed as supposedly "not needed". So Mary travels to the Crimea anyway to set up her own 'hospital'.
Mary Seacole part 2Mary has built the ‘British Hotel’, which is closer to the battlefield than Florence Nightingale’s hospital. She describes how she treated the wounded soldiers, becoming affectionately known as 'Mother Seacole'. Later she is visited by William Howard Russell, a journalist from The Times newspaper, who wishes to write an article about her. After the British reclaim a key city from the Russians, Mary attends a celebratory march.
Mary Seacole part 3After the war had ended Mary describes how she couldn’t sell the British Hotel, so just had to pack up and leave, with many debts. Back in London, she couldn’t afford to keep her loyal maid Sally on. Sally was devastated by this and was angry that everyone seemed to have forgotten how much Mary had done during the war. Then, fortuitously, they received a surprise visit from journalist William Howard Russell. When he heard about Mary’s plight, he determined to remind the British people of her work in the Crimea.
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