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Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) [1] was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC , during World War II . [ 2 ]
Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947) [1] is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies.
Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman [7] Brian O'Nolan , "Ad Astra", in Blackrock College Annual , Irish writer (his first published work) Quentin Pope , editor, Kowhai Gold , anthology of New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York) [ 8 ]
Heather Little-White (1952–2013) M. Alecia McKenzie (living) Kellie Magnus (born 1970) Rachel Manley (born 1955) Una Marson (1905–1965) Kara Miller (living)
Kate Bernheimer's collection How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales is an overt ode to the genre, but, at the same time, a revitalizing force that graces the messiness of girlhood with an ethereal air. "I do think it's something that attracts women who want to turn over and examine the stereotypes and the role of women," Sparks said.
Una Marson (1905–1965), Jamaican activist and poet; Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978), American author of children's books and poetry; Cecília Meireles (1901–1964), Brazilian writer and educator; Ruth Moore (1903–1989), American fiction writer and poet; Salomėja Nėris (1904–1945), Lithuanian poet and political commentator
Cormac McCarthy was deeply private. Now a woman who inspired many of his characters speaks out about their relationship, which began when she was 16 and he was 42.
A sense of a single literature developing across the islands was also encouraged in the 1940s by the BBC radio programme Caribbean Voices, which featured stories and poems written by West Indian authors, recorded in London under the direction of founding producer Una Marson and later Henry Swanzy, and broadcast back to the islands. [8]