WRITER

Mary Seacole

1805 - 1881

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Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman. Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a "doctress". In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Seacole has received more than 2,617,606 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Mary Seacole is the 4,210th most popular writer (down from 3,337th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Jamaican Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Jamaican Nightingale
Biography, Nurses, Jamaican Personal narratives
1989
Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands
Biography, Black Women, Jamaican Personal narratives
1983
Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole
1857
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
2012
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs.Seacole in Many Lands, The
1984
WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS; ED. BY SARA SALIH
Social conditions, Nurses, Personal narratives
2005

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Seacole ranks 4,210 out of 7,302. Before her are Isidore Isou, Daniela Hodrová, Masuji Ibuse, Rafik Schami, Walter Map, and Ma Duanlin. After her are Justinas Marcinkevičius, Léon Damas, Catherine Millet, David Allen, Carl Sternheim, and Dorothea Viehmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Mary Seacole ranks 53. Before her are Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Manuel García, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, and Johann Eduard Erdmann. After her are Esteban Echeverría, William Lloyd Garrison, Johann von Lamont, Victor Baltard, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, and Georg Gottfried Gervinus. Among people deceased in 1881, Mary Seacole ranks 68. Before her are Aleksey Pisemsky, Andrei Zhelyabov, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Theodor Benfey, and Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn. After her are Florian Ceynowa, Gustav von Alvensleben, Gustav Neumann, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Salvador Jovellanos, and George Borrow.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Mary Seacole ranks 28 out of 189. Before her are Bunny Wailer (1947), Max Romeo (1944), DJ Kool Herc (1955), Patrick Allen (1951), Martine Beswick (1941), and Cedella Booker (1926). After her are Shaggy (1968), Prince Buster (1938), John Barnes (1963), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (1986), George Rhoden (1926), and Portia Simpson-Miller (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Jamaica

Among writers born in Jamaica, Mary Seacole ranks 2. Before her are Marcus Garvey (1887). After her are Leonard Howell (1898), Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952), Claude McKay (1889), Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919), Marlon James (1970), Nalo Hopkinson (1960), and Claudia Rankine (1963).

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