Helen Rappaport.
HELEN RAPPAPORT
IN SEARCH OF MARY SEACOLE: THE MAKING OF A CULTURAL ICON (2023)
In 1853 Mary Seacole volunteered as an army nurse in the Crimean War. She opened the British Hotel sanatorium near Balaclava. Lacking building materials, she built the hotel from salvaged driftwood and packing cases.
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Helen Rappaport (born 1947) is a British writer and former actress. She took her degree in Russian and Leeds University, where she also embarked on an acting career of twenty years, mainly in television. In the 1990s she changed career to become a professional writer. One of her first books was ‘An Encyclopaedia of Women Social Reformers’; published in 2001, it won an award from the American Library Association. Her subsequent books have included biographical works on the Romanovs and Lenin, and an account of the Victorian cosmetics industry.
