Marion Bethel

Marion Bethel was born on 31 July 1953 in Nassau. After a degree in Spanish at McGill University, she studied law at Cambridge and has practised as a lawyer in the Bahamas since 1986. A poet, she also made in 2012 the documentary Womanish Ways, on the struggle of Bahamian women for the right to vote, and sat from 2017 to 2024 on the United Nations committee on the elimination of discrimination against women. Her second collection, Bougainvillea Ringplay, appeared in 2009.

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• PoetryGuanahani, My LoveMarion Bethel · 1994Literature