


First Visit – Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey for the first time. Forty years ago last month I first visited Dominica – in my capacity as a journalist – to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK...
Elma Napier Remembered
ELMA NAPIER REMEMBERED It is 50 years this month since the death of Elma Napier, writer, pioneering environmentalist, and the first woman to sit in a West Indian House of Assembly. She arrived in Dominica via Scotland, her birthplace; Australia where she went with her...
My Ti Kai, My Home
My Ti Kai, My Home. Olive Bell Olive Bell, the Dominican architect remembers life in a tikai as a child and how that experience inspired her to become an architect. Olive Bell was part of the team who collaborated on the making of the just published book, ‘Still...
Making Connections
Making connections Women Writers Making connections… Three white women writers of Dominica – Jean Rhys, now the subject of a new and much acclaimed biography by Miranda Seymour, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, writer and politician, and Elma Napier, also writer,...