Clarine Stephenson
Clarine Stephenson was a Jamaican novelist and poet, one of the first women writers in Jamaica. Stephenson's novel Undine tells the story of a Jamaican governess, described in the novel as a "creole child of wealth, reared in the midst of luxury and idleness". Forced to return to Jamaica to work as a governess, she escapes the dust of the city and falls in love with an Englishman.
Clarine Stephenson
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The Jamaican countryside is idealised as an "Eden", the "sweet dreamland of these happy hills". After having her heart broken, she dies, having a vision of her former lover as Jesus Christ. Kim Robinson-Walcott has remarked the fact that the novel features no black characters.
• 'The White Man's Prophecy', Jamaica Times, 21 August 1909. • Undine: An Experience. New York: Broadway Publishing House, 1911. • 'A West Indian miscellany: chip lagwood'. West Indian review, Vol. 2, no. 1 (Sept. 1935), p.59
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- 1.Claire Buck. The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. 1045.
- 2.Three Continents Press. Bibliography of Women Writers from the Caribbean: 1831-1986. x. 1989. 978-0-89410-600-2.
- 3.Karen E. Sumner. Whiteness and Women's Writing in the Caribbean. The University of Western Ontario. 101. 1998.
- 4.Evelyn O'Callaghan. Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939: 'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us'. Routledge. 84–5, 98, 103. 2004. 1-134-44096-0.
- 5.Kim Robinson-Walcott. Out of Order!: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing. University of the West Indies Press. 176. 2006. 978-976-640-172-6.
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