Elizabeth Anesta Sewell (1872 1959) was a Welsh-born writer under the pen-name Diana Lewes. Her memoir, ''A Year in Jamaica: Memoirs of a girl in Arcadia in 1889'', was published

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in 2013 by Eland. The memoir, a coming-of-age story set on a

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispanio ...

sugar plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

called Arcadia, has received praise for its portrait of colonial Jamaica.

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1872 births 1959 deaths Welsh writers 20th-century English novelists {{Wales-writer-stub