Mary Seacole: Half Creole and half white nurse who voluntarily ventured to the front lines, tending to Brittain's wounded. Trained in Jamacia, Seacole was known as possibly the first nurse practicioner, and garnered great fame throughout England. Although evnerated in her time by citizens and veterans alike, she was forgotten for the next century, put under the shadow of Florence Nightengale, a nurse who worked in the same war, but was fully white instead.
Florence Nightingale 
Florence Nightingale: British nurse known for founding modern nursing. Served in the Crimean war along with Seacole. Despite coming after Seacole, she garnered more fame for being white.
Victorian Female Standards Despite being an era of female agency, Victorian society kept a hypocritically conservative set of views for women. They felt women were still a lower people, and even though they deserved nicer treatment, still dd not belong in high stations of power tor utility.
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A traditional, motherly woman, was heavily valued by Victorians.
Early Perception of Nursing
Medicine was previously seen as a solely masculine field, yet Seacole and Nightingale established nursing as a form of trauma care that women could practice
To persuade Victorian society that her work and legacy meant nothing, Mary played herself up like a mother to wounded British boys, signaling Victorian virtues of motherhood to endear her to English society.
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