About: Una Marson

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Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC during World War II. In 1942, she became producer of the programme Calling the West Indies, turning it into Caribbean Voices, which became an important forum for Caribbean literary work.

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  • أونا مارسون (بالإنجليزية: Una Marson)‏ (5 مايو 1905 في جامايكا - 1965)؛ كاتِبة، صحفية وشاعرة جامايكية. (ar)
  • Una Maud Victoria Marson, née le 6 février 1905 et morte le 6 mai 1965 est une féministe, militante et écrivaine jamaïquaine. Elle écrit des poèmes, des pièces de théâtre et des programmes de radio. Elle voyage à Londres en 1932 et est employée par la BBC pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En 1942, elle devient productrice de l'émission Calling the West Indies, qui devient un forum important pour la promotion de la littérature antillaise. (fr)
  • Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC during World War II. In 1942, she became producer of the programme Calling the West Indies, turning it into Caribbean Voices, which became an important forum for Caribbean literary work. Her biographer Delia Jarrett-Macauley described her (in The Life of Una Marson, 1905–1965) as the first "Black British feminist to speak out against racism and sexism in Britain". (en)
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  • 1905-02-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Una Maud Victoria Marson (en)
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  • 1965-05-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Delia Jarrett-Macauley (en)
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  • 1905-02-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Una Maud Victoria Marson (en)
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  • Marson reading a copy of The West Indian Radio Newspaper, during WWII (en)
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  • 1965-05-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Kingston, Jamaica (en)
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  • Producer of Caribbean Voices on BBC World Service (en)
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  • Una Marson (en)
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  • Jamaican (en)
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  • Writer and activist (en)
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  • أونا مارسون (بالإنجليزية: Una Marson)‏ (5 مايو 1905 في جامايكا - 1965)؛ كاتِبة، صحفية وشاعرة جامايكية. (ar)
  • Una Maud Victoria Marson, née le 6 février 1905 et morte le 6 mai 1965 est une féministe, militante et écrivaine jamaïquaine. Elle écrit des poèmes, des pièces de théâtre et des programmes de radio. Elle voyage à Londres en 1932 et est employée par la BBC pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En 1942, elle devient productrice de l'émission Calling the West Indies, qui devient un forum important pour la promotion de la littérature antillaise. (fr)
  • Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC during World War II. In 1942, she became producer of the programme Calling the West Indies, turning it into Caribbean Voices, which became an important forum for Caribbean literary work. (en)
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  • أونا مارسون (ar)
  • Una Marson (fr)
  • Una Marson (en)
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