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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
May 14, 1979. Genre. Fiction. edit data. Jean Rhys, CBE (born Ella Gwendolyn 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.
Apr 27, 2022 · Wed 27 Apr 2022 09.05 EDT. M ost people know Jean Rhys as the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, a title often featured on school and university reading lists. But that prequel to Jane Eyre was...
Apr 14, 2014 · A brief survey of the short story: Jean Rhys. Filled with doomed women in loveless relationships, Jean Rhys's prose would be very hard to read if it weren't so extraordinary. Chris Power....
