Marly: Or, a Planter's Life (Caribbean Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333974026 ISBN 13: 9780333974025

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

When George Marly arrives in Jamaica in 1816, his only ambition is to recover his inheritance. But before long he falls in love with the daughter of Simon McFathom. Will Marly be able to win back his grandfather's plantation of Happy Fortune and secure the hand of Miss McFathom?

About this title

About the Author

Karina Williamson is an Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University and Supernumerary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has taught at the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Uppsala and New Mexico. She was principal editor of The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart; editor of Marly; or A Planter's Life in Jamaica; and she has published numerous articles on English, Scottish and Caribbean subjects. Recent publications on Caribbean topics are "West Indian Georgic" in Essays in Criticism and "Reinventing Jamaican History: Roger Mais and George William Gordon" in Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana: New Perspectives in Caribbean Studies, edited by Sandra Courtman.

Review

"Marly is an invaluable source for scholars of the last decades of English West Indian slavery, and an excellent addition to what has become an outstanding series of republished texts." Natalie Zacek, Society for Caribbean Studies Newsletter"

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0333974026
• ISBN 13: 9780333974025
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Williamson Karina