High quality tote bag featuring the wonderful Mary Seacole quote, “I never thought too exclusively of money, believing rather that we were born to be happy”.
Mary Seacole Quote Tote Bag
£15.00
50 in stock
50 in stock
Description
This high-quality tote bag features a delightful quote from Mary Seacole. Florence Nightingale was not the only woman to have found herself in the Crimean War. Nurses, nuns, wives and even sightseers all made their presence felt. Mary Seacole was much loved and lauded in her time as an astute businesswoman and consummate healer. A doctress, rather than a nurse, she was the daughter of a Scottish father and Jamaican mother and gained a reputation as a woman who could cure many ills, including the much-feared cholera. Setting up a business in the Crimea known as the British Hotel and venturing onto the battlefield to find and aid wounded soldiers, she was much loved and became known as ‘Mother Seacole’. Unjustly forgotten in the years following her death, her legacy is once again being celebrated. A truly remarkable woman.
The quote itself comes from the autobiography she penned in 1857, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, a book that is still in print today.
Exclusive to the Florence Nightingale Museum, and created for us by Judges, an award-winning British company with over one hundred and twenty years of experience, it is manufactured in India in a fair-trade factory.
Made with 100% 10oz cotton
Wipe clean only. Do not tumble dry.
Dimensions – bag – 410mm x 105mm x 385mm. Cotton handle extends a further 275mm.
Weight – 190g
