# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phyllis-shand-allfrey
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:25:48.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phyllis-shand-allfrey"
name: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
slug: "phyllis-shand-allfrey"
description: "Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. She is best known for her first novel, The Orchid House (1953), based on her early life. In 1991, it was adapted into a Channel 4 television miniseries of the same name in the United Kingdom, directed by Horace Ové."
tagline: "West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-10-24"
deathDate: "1986-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.58
  momentum:             2.658227848101265
  historical:           8.080490666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey"
    title: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey"
    title: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey"
    title: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey"
    title: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey"
    title: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Шанд Олфри, Филлис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey"
    title: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Shand_Allfrey"
    title: "Phyllis Shand Allfrey"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12738005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump