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Jean Rhys, CBE (/ r iː s / REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she mainly resided in England, where she was sent for her education.
May 10, 2024 · Jean Rhys was a West Indian novelist who earned acclaim for her early works set in the bohemian world of Europe in the 1920s and ’30s but who stopped writing for nearly three decades, until she wrote a successful novel set in the West Indies. The daughter of a Welsh doctor and a Creole mother, Rhys.
Mar 7, 2016 · Jean Rhys (August 24, 1890 – May 14, 1979) was born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Roseau, Dominica. She is best known for her last novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, considered a prequel and post-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë ’ s Jane Eyre. Published when Rhys was 76 and shaped by her Dominican heritage and reoccurring themes of exile ...
Jun 20, 2022 · The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer - The New York Times. Advertisement. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer. Miranda Seymour’s “I Used...
Jul 4, 2022 · Books. The Many Confrontations of Jean Rhys. In her life and in her writing, the author of post-colonial works such as “Wide Sargasso Sea” met adversity—inflicted and self-inflicted—with an...
May 17, 2022 · Biography and memoir. Add to myFT. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys — a clear-eyed portrait of a spiky contrarian. Miranda Seymour’s sympathetic biography balances the...
Jan 15, 2023 · The life of Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys is at once well-known and mysterious. Her career dipped and soared across both halves of the last century, across changes of name (Ella Gwendoline...
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