New Day (novel) New Day (novel) New Day is a 1949 book by Jamaican author V. S. Reid. It was Reid's first novel. "New Day" deals with the political history of Jamaica as told by a character named Campbell, who is a boy at the time of the Morant Bay Rebellion (in 1865) and an old man during its final chapters. It may have been the first novel to use Jamaican vernacular as its language of narration. Reid employed the Jamaican dialect as a springboard for creating a distinctive literary variant and for achieving a greater depth in the English language. Reid was
The Last Day in the Old Home based on Godinton House in Ashford, Kent, which was the home of the Toke family from 1440 to 1895. Sir Charles Pulleyne is based on Colonel John Leslie Toke (1839–1911), a friend of Martineau, who inherited the house in 1866 but sold it less than 30 years later. The painting measures by . It was exhibited at the British Institution in 1862 and was presented to the Tate Gallery by E.H. Martineau in 1896. The Last Day in the Old Home The Last Day in the Old Home is an oil-on-canvas painting made in 1862 by English painter Robert Braithwaite