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Chargement... A Year in Jamaica : Memoirs of a girl in Arcadia in 1889par Diana Lewes
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This complex memoir tells the story of two simultaneous journeys: Diana Lewes's 1889 trip from England to visit her family's sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and the internal rite of passage of a Victorian girl on her journey to adulthood. For it is in Jamaica that Miss Lewes tries to find a place for herself in the mysterious adult world, to understand its coded rules and hidden passions. Set primarily on a plantation called Arcadia, overlooking the sea and a distant Cuba from on high, Miss Lewes alternates between the acceptable pursuits of a Victorian gentlewoman, and trying to find a more meaningful role for herself in this man's world. With black and white plates. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)917.92044History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America West Coast U.S. UtahClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (4)
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By sally tarbox on 9 April 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
"In the year 1889, when I was sixteen and my sister Beattie four years older, we were taken by our parents from our home in England to Jamaica where my father owned a number of properties and a house at Arcadia."
Thus begins this memoir by Diana Lewes (real name Nesta Sewell), written about 1930 but first published in 2013.
This is an entrancing read; the author writes of her life as a well-to-do young lady - dances, tennis, riding - and the world around her: the local people, the scenery, the sugar plantations, the animals. We get to know her family and friends ; but she delves deeper, as a young adult just starting to make sense of the world about her. She and her sisters mull over the complexity of character types, and the minefield that is social etiquette.
Most enjoyable read. (