Miss louise bennett jamaica
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Louise Bennett-Coverley
Louise began her studies in the autumn of 1945. A report written by RADA provides an insight into Louise’s time there. Praised for her intelligence, enthusiasm for learning, and interest in all aspects of the English theatre, Louise seems to have impressed the tutors. Interestingly, the report also notes that ‘she found a friendly reception from our staff and students.’
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27th August, 1946.
Dear Mrs. Carr,
Miss Louise Bennett.
You ask for a report on Louise Bennett, who spent one year as a student at the R.A.D.A. as a Jamaican British Council Scholar: We found Louise Bennett a highly intelligent person, keen to acquire all possible information and knowledge about the English Theatre, and English culture generally. She carried through her work here with enthusiasm, as what she felt was part of her general effort to see as much as possible of the English Theatre, its working, and its productions. Her social manner as admirable, and she foun
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1Louise Bennett (1919-2006) was born in 1919 in Kingston, Jamaica and died in 2006. She was a folklorist, a singer, actress, poet, underhållare and TV personality, and she made poetry popular with Jamaicans. She fryst vatten mainly and fondly remembered today as the poet who showed that dialect or Creole could be a viable medium for poetry and that its appeal was not limited to comic effects or local colour. She chose to work in dialect and with dialect from a very early age because she recognised that there was an oral tradition which had not been properly recognised and which had to be defended. She also felt that the oral tradition, with its proverbs, människor songs and riddles was the grund of an aesthetics which could be used to develop a really popular poetry. In 1942 she published her first collection of poems, Jamaica DialectVerses, and in 1943 the chief editor of The Gleaner, Jamaica’s main newspaper, offered to pay her for a weekly column on Sundays. By then she had also be
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Louise Bennett-Coverley
Jamaican writer, folklorist and educator (1919–2006)
"Louise Bennett" redirects here. For the Irish suffragette and trade unionist, see Louie Bennett.
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss LouOM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"),[2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.[3]
Early life
[edit]Bennett was born on 7 September 1919 on North Street in Kingston, Jamaica.[4] She was the only child of Augustus Cornelius Bennett, the owner of a bakery in Spanish Town, and Kerene Robinson, a dressmaker. After the death of her father in 1926, Bennett was raised primarily by her mother. Bennett attended elementary school at Ebenezer and Calabar, continuing to