A Year in Jamaica: Memoirs of a Girl in Arcadia in 1889

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A Year in Jamaica is a complex memoir telling the storyof two simultaneous journeys: Diana Lewes's 1889 tripfrom England to visit her family's sugar plantations inthe Caribbean, and the internal rite of passage of aVictorian girl on her journey to adulthood.Miss Lewes alternates between the acceptable pursuitsof a Victorian gentlewoman sewing, social visits,riding and trying to find a more meaningful role forherself in this man's world. We see this intelligent andcompetent young woman appraising the society around her, and struggling with its contradictions.