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

posthumously Posthumous may refer to: * Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death * Posthumous publication – material published after the author's death * ''Posthumous'' (album), by Warne Marsh, 1987 * ''Posthumous'' (E ...

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 His ...

n sugar plantation called Arcadia, has received praise for its portrait of

colonial Jamaica The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was pr ...

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