Delia Jarrett-Macauley

UM 's mother, Ada Marson , was a talented church organist who passed on this skill to her daughters. UM 's biographer, Delia Jarrett-Macauley , has noted that Ada Marson is barely present in the...

One of UM 's duties with the League of Coloured Peoples was to welcome foreign dignitaries. In July 1934 she welcomed Ofori Atta , an African king from Akyem Abukwa in what is now northern...

Critic Delia Jarrett-Macauley judges the poems in this collection to be UM 's most vital and perceptive and argues that its appearance should have been a turning point for [UM ] in the West...

Delia Jarrett-Macauley finds that this volume, put together in a low period in Marson's life, has a tired heaviness about it despite occasional flashes of insight. It received very little attention in Britain when...

UM 's biographer, Delia Jarrett-Macauley , finds that the story presents an idealised picture of racial attitudes in Jamaica.

This play was hailed in Kingston as a landmark event in the development of a Jamaican national drama. The Jamaica Times pronounced it a landmark in what we hope to refer to in the future...

Since UM 's death, critics have been slow to acknowledge her contributions to West Indian literature and to black feminism. Until the mid-1980s she received only passing notice in literary histories of the West Indies...

She settled in South London, where she boarded with the Moody family at 164 Queen's Road, Peckham. Harold Moody was a Jamaican-born doctor and Christian fundamentalist who founded the League of Coloured Peoples ...

Her first article raised the question: Should our women enter politics? It immediately provides the answer: A thousand times yes! Several of the ideas she put forward for feminist action in Jamaica were...

Female winners have included, for the Book Prize Patricia Hollis (for her life of Jennie Lee ), Miranda Carter , Delia Jarrett-Macauley , and for the Journalism Prize Melanie Phillips , Polly Toynbee , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , and Vanora Bennett .