Her private practice in Trinidad placed special emphasis on psychosomatic illnesses. Even while she ran her private practice, she served as the District Medical Officer for Diego Martin. This involved offering primary healthcare for the many residents in the areas of Diego Martin, Maraval, St James and Carenage.
Possessing a truly caring spirit, she also volunteered with a home for convalescent children in Diego Martin. Hilda learnt the importance of education early in life as her father was the headmaster of her primary school where her mother, aunts and sister had also been teachers. She then enrolled at Bishop Anstey High School, Trinidad as a parttime student in order to study the subjects she needed to pursue studies in medicine later on.
It provides an insightful portrayal of not just an exceptional woman, but the emergence of an aspiring working class into a new Caribbean middle class. It adds to the picture of the education of that class — mostly in the UK — in the s and 50s, but one so far mainly told from a male perspective.
Merle Collins is uniquely equipped to write this biography. Merle Collins is Grenadian. She is the author of two novels, a collection of short stories and two previous collections of poetry. She teaches Caribbean literature at the University of Maryland.
Merle Collins was born in in Aruba to Grenadian parents, she was taken to Grenada shortly after her birth. Her primary education was in St Georges. Did You Know? Please Share. Posted in Did You Know?
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