The family mansion
By: by Anthony C. Winkler
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781617751660
Subjects: Social life and customs; Plantation life; Fiction
Description: "The Family Mansion tells the story of Hartley Fudges, whose personal destiny unfolds against the backdrop of nineteenth-century British culture, a time when English society was based upon the strictest subordination and stratification of the classes. Hartley's decision to migrate to Jamaica at the age of twenty-three seems sensible at first: in the early 1800s Jamaica was far and away the richest and most opulent of all the crown colonies. But for all its fabulous wealth, Jamaica was a difficult and inhospitable place for an immigrant."--Provided by publisher.