# Endnotes explained — Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

> Chapter companion for Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole.

## What happens

The endnotes provide brief editorial clarifications and cross-references, including a note on Mrs. Seacole's likely allusion to Macbeth and a mention of the author's subsequent interactions with Miss Nightingale in Balaclava.

## Character check-ins

### Mary Seacole

Referenced in the endnote regarding a possible allusion to Macbeth.

### Florence Nightingale

Mentioned as someone the author saw much of subsequently at Balaclava.

## Key lines

> Mrs. Seacole very likely refers to Macbeth. But it was the witches he abused. —⁠ Ed.

The editor notes that Mary Seacole probably alludes to Shakespeare's Macbeth, though she mistakenly attributes the abuse to Macbeth rather than the witches.

_Editorial clarification of a literary reference._

> Subsequently I saw much of Miss Nightingale, at Balaclava.

Later, I spent a great deal of time with Florence Nightingale in Balaclava.

_Cross-reference to the author's interactions with Nightingale during the Crimean War._

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