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   Jean Rhys was a British novelist of Caribbean origin, best known for her prequel to Jane Eyre. She had a turbulent life, marrying three times, living in poverty, and writing under the influence of Ford Madox Ford.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Jean-RhysJean Rhys | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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   Aug 20, 2024 · Learn about the life and work of Jean Rhys, a West Indian novelist who wrote about bohemian Europe and the West Indies. Find out how she reimagined Jane Eyre's mad wife in Wide Sargasso Sea and why she stopped writing for decades.

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2022/06/20 › booksThe Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer

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   Jun 20, 2022 · Rhys had a uniquely lonely intelligence, and a talent for facing hard truths. If all you know of her is “Wide Sargasso Sea,” this book will encourage you to branch out. That’s nearly ...

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6. www.literaryladiesguide.com › jean-rhysJean Rhys, Author of Wide Sargasso Sea | LiteraryLadiesGuide

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   Mar 7, 2016 · Learn about Jean Rhys, a Dominican-born writer who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel to Jane Eyre. Explore her life, marriages, and other novels and stories influenced by her Caribbean heritage and themes of exile and alienation.

7. theconversation.com › woman-modernist-west-indianWoman, modernist, West Indian: the haunted life of Jean Rhys

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   Jan 15, 2023 · A review of a novel by Caryl Phillips that explores the Dominican roots of the Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys, who experienced a turbulent life and career. The novel reflects on Rhys' themes of loss, identity and language, and her relationship with Ford Madox Ford.

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8. www.newstatesman.com › culture › booksReflections of the elusive Jean Rhys - New Statesman

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   Jun 6, 2022 · Reflections of the elusive Jean Rhys. The novelist wrote four dark, slyly autobiographical novels – then vanished for 25 years. A new biography hopes to separate the woman from the work.

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   Who is 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.

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   How old was Jean Rhys when she was born?

   • I was nine years of age.” Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1890, though she was not called that then. Her parents – William Rees Williams, a Welsh doctor, and Minnie Lockhart, a white Creole descended from a slave-owning family on the island – christened her Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams.

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   Is Jean Rhys a modernist?

   • Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys’s reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives, formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies along them.

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   What happened to Jean Rhys?

   • The novelist wrote four dark, slyly autobiographical novels – then vanished for 25 years. A new biography hopes to separate the woman from the work Jean Rhys, 1974. © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images

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10. assets.cambridge.org › 97805216 › 95435The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

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    A comprehensive and critical overview of the life, work, contexts and reception of Jean Rhys, a modernist author of Caribbean and colonial origin. The book covers her novels, short stories, notebooks, manuscripts, and themes such as cultural identities, modernisms, and postcolonialism.