Jamaica Times
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The Jamaica Times was a literary newspaper for literature from Jamaica
and the Caribbean. The author Thomas MacDermot
(aka Tom Redcam) was the editor from 1900–1920 and was an assistant before that, and the author Herbert George de Lisser was an editor for several years starting in 1889. It was a weekly paper primarily for teachers and ministers but also for a wide spectrum of the middle classes.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
and the Caribbean. The author Thomas MacDermot
Thomas MacDermot
Thomas MacDermot was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times for over twenty years. Thomas MacDermot worked to promote Jamaican literature through all of his writing, starting a weekly short story contest in the Jamaica Times in 1899, and starting the All Jamaica Library...
(aka Tom Redcam) was the editor from 1900–1920 and was an assistant before that, and the author Herbert George de Lisser was an editor for several years starting in 1889. It was a weekly paper primarily for teachers and ministers but also for a wide spectrum of the middle classes.
External links
- Herbert G. de Lisser at the Jamaica Times
- Thomas MacDermot's role as editor of the Jamaica Times
- Original issues of the Jamaica Times openly and freely accessible for all within the Digital Library of the CaribbeanDigital Library of the CaribbeanThe Digital Library of the Caribbean is an international digital library operated collaboratively by the contributing partners.-Partners:...