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“... were her principal educators, swopping Bajan folklore, talking politics (‘if FDR was their hero, Marcus Garvey was their God’) and the travails of living in this ‘man country’. The ‘unknown bards’ have populated her stories ever since, most memorably in Silla Boyce, the furious matriarch of her first novel. Women have been active elements ...”

“... I am talking about. Here follows my own belated winter garden to the American poet James Marcus Schuyler, pronounced ‘Sky-ler’, 1923-91. The first time I was aware of James Schuyler was in one of those rather windy American ‘Best of’ annuals. At the back of the book, the poets comment on their own poems, in every shade of vainglory and ...”

“... philanthropy’; Charlotte Brontë represented Jamaica as a place of degeneracy and corruption in Jane Eyre; Carlyle’s ‘Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question’ rested on an absolutist assumption of the need for racial hierarchies. The links between English nationalism and racism were fed by popular writers such as Charles Kingsley and the historian ...”

“... their favourite critical subjects, such as Christopher Ricks on Tennyson or Marilyn Butler on Jane Austen. There are one or two notable absences among historians who have written principally on British topics – nothing from Linda Colley or Quentin Skinner, for example – and some of the best-known contemporary exponents of biography have not ...”