High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edna Manley OM (March 1, 1900 – February 2, 1987) was a sculptor and contributor to Jamaican culture, as well as the wife of Norman Manley, the founder of the Jamaican People`s National Party. She is often considered the "mother of Jamaican art". She is the daughter of English cleric Harvey Swithenbank and a Jamaican woman by the name of Ellie Shearer. Her father died when Edna was nine, leaving her mother to raise nine children on her own. As the middle child, Edna Manley was highly independent and spirited. She once attended several art schools in a two-year period, although she sensed that these schools were incredibly limited in what they offered in their curriculum. Edna eventually married Manley (who was her Jamaican cousin) in 1921, and eventually moved with him from England to Jamaica in 1922. The couple had two children, Michael Manley (who was to become a union activist and the eventual prime minister, succeeding his father Norman) and Douglas Manley, a sociologist and minister in his brother`s government.