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Jean Rhys. Jean Rhys, CBE ( / riːs / REESS; [3] 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. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966 ...
Jun 20, 2022 · The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys. By Miranda Seymour. Illustrated. 421 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $32.50. Like George Orwell, Thomas Hardy and W.H. Auden, the British novelist Jean Rhys did not ...
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Apr 4, 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.
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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...
Apr 27, 2022 · Set in Paris in 1937, it is whispered into our ears by Sasha Jansen, another outsider and a woman with a black sense of humour about her own misfortunes. Moments of mad comedy punctuate Sasha’s ...
- Miranda Seymour
Jul 4, 2022 · Rhys lends to Anna, her first-person narrator, many of her own defining wounds and travails—Anna is an impoverished and attractive chorus girl, born “somewhere” in the West Indies. The other ...
