Gilroy, Beryl

About Beryl Gilroy

Biography (British Library)

Obituary (The Guardian)

Foot, Tom. "School Votes against Renaming Itself in Honour of Pioneering Black Headteacher." Camden New Journal, 2 Dec. 2020

D'Aguiar, Fred. “Letter to Beryl Gilroy.” Callaloo, 2016

Davies, Carole Boyce, and Meredith Gadsby. “Remembering Beryl Gilroy.” MaComère, 2001

Dance, Daryl Cumber. “Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview.” MaComère, 1998

 

Reviews

Newson, Adele S. “World Literature in Review: Guyana.” World Literature Today, vol. 71, no. 2, 1997

McLeod, A. L. “World Literature in Review: Guyana.” World Literature Today, vol. 64, no. 2, 1990

Salkey, Andrew. “Frangipani House.World Literature Today, vol. 61, no. 4, 1987

Deveson, Richard. “The Life of the Political Past.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4360, 1986

 

Interviews

Nasta, Susheila, and Sandra Courtman. ”An Interview with Beryl Gilroy.” Wasafiri, vol. 33, no. 2, 2018

Adams, Anne V. “'Coming to Terms with My Own Old Age': An Interview with Beryl Gilroy.” Matatu, vol. 3, no. 6, 1989

 

Criticism

Kaladeen, Maria del Pilar. “Windrushed.” Wasafiri, vol. 33, no. 2, 2018

Radović, Stanka. Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction, 2014

Courtman, Sandra. “Women Writers and the Windrush Generation: A Contextual Reading of Beryl Gilroy's In Praise of Love and Children and Andrea Levy's Small Island.” EnterText, vol. 9, 2012

Ward, Abigail. “Postcolonial Interventions into the Archive of Slavery: Transforming Documents into Monuments in Beryl Gilroy's Stedman and Joanna.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 45, no. 2, 2010

Courtman, Sandra. “Not Good Enough or Not Man Enough? Beryl Gilroy as the Anomaly in the Evolving 'Black British Canon'.” A Black British Canon?, Low and Wynne-Davies (eds.), 2006

Courtman, Sandra. “A Black British Canon? The Uses of Beryl Gilroy's Black Teacher and Its Recovery as Literature.” Wasafiri, vol. 36, 2002

Bradshaw, Roxann. “Beryl Gilroy's 'Fact-Fiction' Through the Lens of the 'Quiet Old Lady'.” Callaloo, vol. 25, no. 2, 2002

Brodber, Erna. “Guyana's History, Physical Space and Class Consciousness: The Novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols.” Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, Liddell and Kemp (eds.), 1999

Liddell, Janice Lee. “Voyages beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall.” Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, Liddell and Kemp (eds.), 1999

Poynting, Jeremy. “A Writer at the Height of Her Powers: Three Recent Novels by Beryl Gilroy.” MaComère, vol. 1, 1998

Anim-Addo, Joan. “Anguish and the Absurd: 'Key Moments,' Recreated Lives, and the Emergence of New Figures of Black Womanhood in the Narrative Works of Beryl Gilroy.” Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Newson and Strong-Leek (eds.), 1998

Tarver, Australia. “Frangipani House: Beryl Gilroy's Praise Song for Grandmothers.” Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Newson and Strong-Leek (eds.), 1998

 

Works

Autobiography/Life Writing

Sunlight on Sweet Water (1994)

Black Teacher (1976)

 

Novels

The Green Grass Tango (2001)

In Praise of Love and Children (1996)

Gather the Faces (1996)

Stedman and Joanna, a Love in Bondage: Dedicated Love in the Eighteenth Century (1991)

Boy-Sandwich (1989)

Inkle and Yarico (1987)

Frangipani House (1986)

 

Children’s and Young Adult’s Books

Carnival of Dreams. Illustrated by Simon Wilby (1980)

In for a Penny. Illustrated by Simon Wilby (1980)

Grandpa’s Footsteps; Auntie Olive’s Wedding; Elvira (1978)

Once Upon a Time. Illustrated by Joan Beales (1977)

Arthur Small. Illustrated by Dorothy Clarke (1976)

New Shoes. Illustrated by Ferelith Eccles Williams(1976)

The Present. Illustrated by Nicole Goodwin (1975)

The Paper Bag. Illustrated by Shyan Varma (1975)

A Visitor from Home. Illustrated by Shyan Varma (1975)

New People at Twenty-Four. Illustrated by Shyan Varma (1975)

No More Pets. Illustrated by Margaret Belsky (1975)

In Bed. Illustrated by Robert Hales (1975)

Rice and Peas. Illustrated by Beryl Sanders (1975)

Outings for Everyone. Illustrated by Prudence Seward (1975)

Babu’s Street. Illustrated by George Him (1975)

Knock at Mrs. Herbs’. Illustrated by Shyam Varma (1973)

As editor, with Ruth Thom and Leila Locke. The Green and Gold Readers for Guyana, Book 1-4 (1967 - 1971)

The Busy Book (1961)

 

Poetry Collections

Echoes and Voices: Open-Heart Poetry (1991)

 

Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories

“Reflections.” Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English, Condé and Lonsdale (eds.), 1999

“Women of Color at the Barricades.” Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Newson and Strong-Leek (eds.), 1998

“I Write Because …” Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, Cudjoe (ed.), 1990

“The Woman Writer and Commitment: Links between Caribbean and African Literature.” Wasafiri, vol. 10, 1989

Blue Water Readers Teacher's Guide: A Handbook on the Teaching of Reading (1962)

 

Audio and Audiovisual Material

CARAF Celebrates Beryl Gilroy. YouTube, 9 Jul. 2020