Jane: A Story of Jamaica
Book Details
| Title: | Jane: A Story of Jamaica | ||||||||
| Author: |
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| Published: | 1913 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | The Gleaner Company, Limited | ||||||||
| Tags: | Caribbean Sea, fiction, Jamaica | ||||||||
| Description: | The story of young Jane, raised in the countryside of Jamaica and who leaves home for the city of Kingston.
This book was the author’s first novel and is significant in history as being the first West Indian novel to have a black protagonist. In later printings, the title changed to Jane’s Career: A Story of Jamaica. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 33 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 152  |
Author Bio for de Lisser, Herbert G.
Herbert George de Lisser CMG (1878-1944) was a prolific Jamaican author, journalist and playwright. He began his career in the newspaper business becoming editor of the Jamaican Daily Gleaner in 1904 and remaining in the editor's chair until 1944. He wrote several articles for the paper every day. He began publishing his own annual magazine, Planter's Punch, in 1920 and published several of his novels through the magazine. He began writing novels in 1913.
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