Una Marson and the Fractured Subjects of Modernity: Writing across the Black Atlantic

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Notes

¹For a fuller analysis of the critical reception of Marson's work, see Donnell (2006): (150–6).

²In 1895, the Jamaica Agricultural Society was founded to promote more scientific and efficient farming methods, leading to the increasing mechanization of agriculture.

³For an analysis of the short stories published in the magazine, see Reade Rosenberg (2004). There was also a regular page for ‘Short Poems by Local Poets’.

⁴On 30 May 1929, Rathbone was elected as an independent Member of Parliament for the Combined English Universities and one of her maiden speeches was on the issue of clitoridectomy in Kenya.