Mary Seacole, the nurse and Crimean war heroine, has been honoured with a blue plaque after a three-year campaign by the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal.
The plaque was unveiled at 14 Soho Square by the body's vice-chairwoman, Elizabeth Anionwu.
Seacole began writing her autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, at the London address in the 1850s.
A previous blue plaque to Seacole had been removed from 157 George Street, her former residence, when the building was demolished.
Anionwu said she had contacted English Heritage in 2004 after "constant queries" about the whereabouts of the plaque.
She added that Seacole had been as famous as Florence Nightingale, but had been "airbrushed out of history", despite having an obituary in the Times newspaper in 1881.
"She was so famous in England, yet we didn't hear about her until her autobiography was reissued in 1984," said Anionwu.
Felicity Heywood
The plaque was unveiled at 14 Soho Square by the body's vice-chairwoman, Elizabeth Anionwu.
Seacole began writing her autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, at the London address in the 1850s.
A previous blue plaque to Seacole had been removed from 157 George Street, her former residence, when the building was demolished.
Anionwu said she had contacted English Heritage in 2004 after "constant queries" about the whereabouts of the plaque.
She added that Seacole had been as famous as Florence Nightingale, but had been "airbrushed out of history", despite having an obituary in the Times newspaper in 1881.
"She was so famous in England, yet we didn't hear about her until her autobiography was reissued in 1984," said Anionwu.
Felicity Heywood
