Lady Nugent's journal of her residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805
By: edited by Philip Wright ; with a foreword by Verene A. Shepherd.
Contributors: Wright, Philip.; Shepherd, Verene.
Publisher: University of the West Indies
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mona, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Nugent, Maria, -- Lady, -- 1771?-1834 -- Diaries.; Jamaica -- Description and travel.; Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Genres: Diaries.
Description: Personal diary of Lady Nugent, wife of the Governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies, during a critical period in the Napoleonic War. Entries, mainly concerned with life in the Governor's household, convey fresh impressions of life at the centre of a slave-owning colonial society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.