Anne Walmsley

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Anne Walmsley


Born
The United Kingdom
Died
July 12, 2025


Anne Walmsley was a British-born editor, scholar, critic and author, notable as a specialist in Caribbean art and literature over a period of five decades. She was widely recognised for her work as Longman's Caribbean publisher, and for Caribbean books that she authored and edited. Her school anthology, The Sun's Eye: West Indian Writing for Young Readers (1968), drew on her use of local literary material while teaching in Jamaica. A participant in and chronicler of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Walmsley was also the author of The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 (1992) and Art in the Caribbean (2010). She lived in London. ...more

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The Sun's Eye

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The Caribbean Artists Movem...

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Art in the Caribbean: an In...

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Facing the Sea: Selected Wr...

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Guyana Dreamimg: the Art of...

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Caribbean Connection II

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