A Year in Jamaica is a complex memoir telling the story of two
simultaneous journeys: Diana Lewes' 1889 trip from England to visit
her family's sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and more
intriguingly, the internal rite of passage of a Victorian girl on
her journey to adulthood. For it is in Jamaica that Miss Lewes
tries to find a place for herself in the mysterious adult world, to
understand its coded rules and hidden passions. Set primarily on a
plantation called Arcadia, overlooking the sea and a distant Cuba
from on high, Miss Lewes alternates between the acceptable pursuits
of a Victorian gentlewoman - sewing, social visits, riding - and
trying to find a more meaningful role for herself in this man's
world. She delights in the exhilarating freedom of careering across
the countryside on horseback with her sister, is cowed by the
roaring rains and horrified at watching a hen peck a lizard to
death. Against this background, we see this intelligent and
competent young woman appraising the society around her, and
struggling with its contradictions. Quite how complex those
contradictions were is only finally revealed in the publisher's
afterword.
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