Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by
A far cry from the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition, this book, written in 1857, is a special kind of success story. With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole, a free-born Jamaican Creole, recounts her childhood as a daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black boarding-house keeper, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield 'doctress' to British troops in the Crimean War. She emerges as an independent and respected maternal figure, the acme of female achievement in Victorian culture, and a symbol of 'home' to British soldiers alienated by war.
| Primary Source | Secondary/Tertiary Source | |
| DEFINITION | Articles with first-hand information or original data that has not been interpreted, evaluated or analyzed. | Work that analyzes, summarizes, interprets, reorganizes primary sources. |
| AKA | Primary literature, original research article, empirical article, research article, peer-reviewed article, scientific paper, scholarly article. | Popular magazines, newspaper articles, textbooks, encyclopedias |
| TIMING OF PUBLICATION CYCLE | Primary sources tend to come first in the publication cycle. | Secondary sources tend to come second in the publication cycle. Tertiary after that. |
| FORMATS--depends on the kind of analysis being conducted. | Conference papers, poster presentations, dissertations, interviews, laboratory notebooks, patents, empirical studies, technical reports, surveys, and instruments. | Review articles, magazine articles, and books |
| Example: Scientists studying Genetically Modified Foods. | Article in scholarly journal reporting original research and methodology on topic. | Articles and books analyzing and commenting on the results of original research |
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