Monica Skeete
Monica Skeete (née Martineau; 1923–1997) was a Grenadian poet, writer and teacher. Her work was first published in the Barbadian literary magazine BIM in 1946. Her 1978 collection of short stories, Time Out, was published by Nelson Caribbean in their Authors of the Caribbean series, to support a growing educational market for Caribbean literature. Other short stories were anthologised in several publications. She also wrote novels. Much of her career was spent as a history teacher at Queen's College, Barbados. She died in 1997. Life Monica Agnes Skeete (née Martineau) was born in Grenville, Grenada, on 23 October 1923 and was educated at the Church of England High School (later called the Anglican High School), Grenada, before she moved to Barbados, where her father lived, in 1937 for an education at Queen's College girls' school. After graduating from Queens in 1942, she was awarded a Ext. B.A. Gen. in 1950 (in Latin, English and History) and took up a teaching post at Queen's College in 1951. In 1956 she took study leave from her job and relocated to London, travelling with her then fiancé Harry Skeete, a Barbadian with plans for university study in London. The couple were married a