Editing Jersey (section)

=== Literature ===
[[File:Victor Hugo-Exile.jpg|right|thumb|[[Victor Hugo]] in exile, 1850s]]
[[Wace]] was a 12th-century poet born in Jersey. He is the earliest known Jersey writer, authoring ''[[Roman de Brut]]'' and ''[[Roman de Rou]]'', among others. Some believe him to be the earliest [[Jèrriais]] writer and he is known as the founder of [[Jèrriais literature|Jersey literature]], but the language in which he wrote is very different from modern Jèrriais.<ref name="Worlddata-2019"/>

As Jèrriais was not an official language in Jersey, it had no standard written form, which meant that Jersey literature is very varied, written in multiple forms of Jèrriais alongside Standard English and French.<ref name="facts gov">{{Cite web |title=Facts about Jersey |url=https://www.gov.je/Leisure/Jersey/Pages/Profile.aspx |website=Government of Jersey |access-date=2 March 2017 |url-status=live |archive-date=21 December 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191221081233/https://www.gov.je/Leisure/Jersey/Pages/Profile.aspx}}</ref>

[[Matthew Le Geyt]] was the first poet to publish in Jèrriais after the introduction of printing to the island in the 18th century.<ref name="Jersey Tourism-2006">{{Cite web |title=Where is Jersey |url=http://www.jersey.com/wij/wij_en.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820081549/http://www.jersey.com/wij/wij_en.htm |archive-date=20 August 2006 |access-date=15 October 2006 |publisher=Jersey Tourism}}</ref> [[Philippe Le Sueur Mourant]] wrote in Jèrriais in the 19th century.{{r|facts gov}} Jerseyman George d'la Forge is named the 'Guardian of the Jersey Norman Heritage'. Though he lived in America for most of his life, he felt a strong attachment to Jersey and his native language. His works were turned into books in the 1980s.<ref name="Ramsar-2018" />

After the failure of the 1848 revolution, thirty-nine French revolutionaries were exiled in Jersey, including the famous French author [[Victor Hugo]], as Jersey's culture had a relation to their native French.<ref name="UK Gov-2018" /> Gerald Durrell, the famous zoologist who set up [[Jersey Zoo]], was also an author, writing novels, non-fiction and children's books. He wrote in order to fund and further his conservation work.<ref name="Mut Bosque-2020" />