Una Marson
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Standard Name: Marson, Una
Birth Name: Una Marson
Married Name: Una Staples
Kingston, Jamaica, and London, England. Her writing consistently reflects her commitment to local and global feminism. Her interest in racial and national politics became increasingly apparent in her life and her writings, most notably in The Moth and the Star (1937), a poetry collection infused with blues sounds exploring the complexities of black female identity, and in Pocomania (1938), a play about the controversial African-based religious cult of that name in Jamaica.
was a pioneering Jamaican poet, dramatist, journalist, and broadcaster whose most prolific period was the 1930s, during which she divided her time between Timeline
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Texts
Marson, Una. At What a Price. British Library, 1932.
Marson, Una. “Christmas on Poinsettia Island”. American Junior Red Cross News.
Marson, Una. Heights and Depths. Published by the author, 1931.
Marson, Una. London Calling. 1937.
Marson, Una. “Nigger”. The Keys, p. 8.
Marson, Una. Pocomania. 1938.
Marson, Una. “Sojourn”. The Cosmopolitan, pp. 8-10.
Marson, Una, editor. The Cosmopolitan.
Marson, Una. The Moth and the Star. Published by the author, 1937.
Marson, Una. Towards the Stars. University of London Press, 1945.
Marson, Una. Tropic Reveries. Published by the author, 1930.
Marson, Una. “Women Poets of Jamaica”. Daily Gleaner.