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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.
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Jun 20, 2022 · Rhys (pronounced Rees) led a complicated life that defies tidy summary. She left Dominica, where her father was a doctor, to study at a boarding school in Cambridge.
Jan 15, 2023 · A new biography of Jean Rhys, the Dominican-born author of Wide Sargasso Sea, pays close attention to her origins – but stops short of examining the colonial relations that are central to her...
Jul 4, 2022 · Rhys is called Jean throughout, and Angier concludes that “Jean” probably suffered from a borderline personality disorder that blocked her from developing “a complete, autonomous self.”
