Una Marson

Una Maud Victoria Marson (5 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and programmes for the BBC. Marson travelled to London in 1932 and worked for the BBC during World War II.

Early years (1905–32)

Una Marson was born on 6 February 1905, in Santa Cruz, Jamaica, in the parish of St Elizabeth. She was the youngest of six children of Rev. Solomon Isaac (1858–1915), a Baptist parson, and Ada Marson (d. 1930). Una had a middle-class upbringing and was very close to her father, who influenced some of her fatherlike characters in her later works. As a child before going to school she was an avid reader of available literature, which at the time was mostly English classical literature.

At the age of 10, she was enrolled in Hampton High, a girl's boarding school in Jamaica of which her father was on the board of trustees. However, that same year, Rev. Isaac died, leaving the family with financial problems, so they moved to Kingston. Una finished school at Hampton High, but did not go on to a college education.

Marson

Marson is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

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Marson (surname)

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