Phyllis Shand Allfrey

Phyllis Shand Allfrey

BritishOctober 24, 1908 – February 4, 1986Colonial Fiction

Allfrey was a Dominica-born British writer whose novel The Orchid House is an important proto-postcolonial novel anticipating Jean Rhys. Her political career as a socialist feminist is inseparable from her literary work.

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