ALLFREY, Phyllis Shand
Phyllis Shand Allfrey was born in 1908 on the Caribbean island of Dominica, where she died in 1986. A white West Indian, from a once wealthy planter family -- like her compatriot and sometime friend Jean Rhys -- she has a particular significance in the region as a political as well as a literary figure. As a young woman she lived for a time in the United States, moving in well-connected New York society, and later spent some years in Britain, where she joined the Fabian Society and the Socialist League. Returning to the West Indies in the 1950s, she co-founded the Dominica Labour Party and became a minister in the cabinet of the short-lived Federation of the West Indies in Trinidad. Back in Dominica, she ran a newspaper -- The Dominica Star -- and lived until her death in a tiny stone house filled with books and memories, of both the triumphs and the disappointments that characterised her personal and political life. (A discussion of the life and legacy of the author can be found on the BBC at www.bbc.co.uk)
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IT FALLS INTO PLACE
(U.K.-2004)
It Falls Into Place brings together for the first time the shorter fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey, whose novel The Orchid House is a classic of Caribbean literature. These tantalising stories -- set in Dominica, New York and London yet always steeped in an unmistakably West Indian identity -- probe beneath the surface of colonial life, often drawing on autobiographical experience. Allfrey's skill is to lead her characters -- of different races and cultures -- into unpredictable encounters where miracles can happen.
(Published by Papillote Press).
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