Recovering the Writers of the Foundational Generation
When the Jamaican writer Vera Bell (b. 1904) died in 1984, her death was not publicly noted, either in Jamaica or in the UK, where she and her husband had moved in 1955.
Anna Girling is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where she has previously taught and studied. She has a particular interest in early 20th-century literature and literary history, and her current project explores pre-Second World War Jamaican writers’ interest in cosmopolitanism, hybridity, influence, and the ways that they navigated the relation between transnational and local commitment in their lives, works and literary communities.