Text, testimony and gender: An examination of some texts by women on the English-speaking Caribbean from the 1770s to the 1920s

Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 63-93

  Brereton, Bridget ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009322434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-07302-0     Document Type: Book

References (20)

1. H. Beckles, Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados (London: Zed Press, 1989),.
2. B. Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 (London: James Currey, 1990).
3. M. Morrissey, Slave Women in the New World (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990).
4. Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality; being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776, edited by E.W. Andrews and C.M. Andrews (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939).
5. Maria Nugent, Lady Nugent's Journal of her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805, edited by P. Wright (Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1966).
6. A.F. Fenwick (ed.), The Fate of the Fenwicks: Letters to Mary Hays, 1798-1828 (London: Methuen, 1927), pp. 161-217.
7. Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself edited by Moira Ferguson (London: Pandora, 1987; originally published London and Edinburgh: Westley and David, 1831).
8. Mrs A. C. Carmichael, Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies, 2 vols New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
9. Frances Lanaghan, Antigua and the Antiguans, 2 vols (London: Spottiswoode, 1967; originally published anonymously, London: Saunders and Otley, 1844);.
10. M. Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, edited by Z. Alexander and A. Dewjee (Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1984; originally published London: James Blackwood, 1857);.
11. Y. Bridges, Child of the Tropics, Victorian Memoirs, edited by N. Guppy (London: Collins and Harvill, 1980).
12. A. Mahase, My Mother's Daughter. The Autobiography of Anna Mahase Snr 1899-1978 (Claxton Bay, Trinidad: Royards, 1992).
13. M. Ferguson (ed.), The Hart Sisters: Early African-Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals and Radicals (Lincoln, Nebraska and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993).
14. Thomas Pringle, Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834 (Routledge: New York: 1992), pp. 281-98.
15. Harriet A. Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herseif(edited by Jean F. Yellin,Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Harvard, 1987; originally published anonymously in 1861).
16. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 'Unspeakable things unspoken: ghosts and memories in the narratives of African-American women', The 1992 Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture, (University of the West Indies, Mona).
17. Ferguson, Subject to Others, pp. 6-7.
18. Ferguson, Subject to Others, pp. 262-64.
19. C. Craig, 'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands: Autobiography as literary genre and a window to character', Caribbean Quarterly, 30 (2), June 1984), pp. 33-47.
20. A. Josephs, 'Mary Seacole: Jamaican nurse and "doctress", 1805/10-1881', Jamaican Historical Review XVll (1991), pp. 48-65.