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Una Marson

Died in 1965

Una Marson was born on 6 February 1905 near Santa Cruz, in the parish of Saint Elizabeth, the daughter of a Baptist minister. A journalist in Kingston, she founded the magazine The Cosmopolitan at the end of the twenties, becoming the first woman to edit and publish a magazine in Jamaica. Having left for London in the early thirties, she worked for the League of Coloured Peoples, then for the BBC, where she produced the programme Calling the West Indies. She died in Kingston in May 1965.

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