Phyllis S. Allfrey (1915–1986)
Autore di The Orchid House
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Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Allfrey, Phyllis Byam Shand
- Altri nomi
- Shand, Phyllis (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1915-10-24
- Data di morte
- 1986-02-04
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Dominica
- Luogo di nascita
- Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
- Luogo di morte
- Dominica
- Luogo di residenza
- Dominica
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - Istruzione
- privately educated
- Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist
journalist
politician
short story writer
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, West Indies (1958-62) (mostra tutto 8)
Editor (Dominica Herald and Dominica Star)
social activist - Organizzazioni
- Fabian Society
British Labour Party
Parliamentary Committee for West Indian Affairs
Dominica Labour Party (founder)
West Indies Federation - Breve biografia
- Phyllis Shand Allfrey was born in Roseau on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean to a family of British colonial administrators and planters dating back to the 17th century. She married Robert Allfrey, an Oxford University engineer with whom she had five children.
She published two volumes of poetry, In Circles (1940) and Palm and Oak (1950), as well as a novel, The Orchid House (1953) that brought her recognition, including a prize in an international poetry competition. From 1941 to 1944, her reviews, poems, and short stories appeared regularly in the newspaper Tribune alongside those of regular contributors such as Stevie Smith, Julian Symons, Elizabeth Taylor, and George Orwell. When Phyllis returned to Dominica in 1954, political change became her main focus. She co-founded the Dominica Labour Party with Emmanuel Christopher Loblack and served as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the government of Sir Grantley Adams of the short-lived Federation of the West Indies. In 1965, she established a newspaper called The Dominica Star to continue campaigning for social justices and equality. A collected edition of her shorter fiction, It Falls into Place (2004) and Love for an Island: the Collected Poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey (2014) were published posthumously by Papillote Press, which also re-issued The Orchid House in 2016. The Orchid House was adapted into a highly-acclaimed British television miniseries in 1991.
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- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 154
- Popolarità
- #135,795
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 15
- Lingue
- 1
I have the sense that this is an excellent book. However, what I wanted to read was a book ab out an idyllic childhood on a tropical island. There was a tiny bit of that, but the book was much more a political and historical treatise about Domenica, partially reflecting the author's own life. She was raised on Dominica, and returned as an adult, became involved in politics (as an ardent socialist), and founded Dominica's first political party. It was also rather darker than I was looking for: their father was a drug addict who squandered the family's livelihood; the love interest was dying of TB. It was not a book I looked forward to coming back to, and I had to force myself to keep reading. At a different time, under different circumstances, with different expectations, I think I would have liked it a lot more.
3 stars… (altro)