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Elizabeth Anesta Sewell

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Elizabeth Anesta Sewell (1872 – 1959) was a Welsh-born writer under the pen-name Diana Lewes. Her memoir, A Year in Jamaica: Memoirs of a girl in Arcadia in 1889, was published posthumously in 2013 by Eland. The memoir, a coming-of-age story set on a Jamaican sugar plantation called Arcadia,[1] has received praise for its portrait of colonial Jamaica.[2]

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  1. ^ "A Year in Jamaica". Eland Books. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. ^ Powers, Anne (2 November 2013). "A Year in Jamaica: Book Review". aparcelofribbons.co.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2016.