Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams (1890-08-24)24 August 1890 Roseau or Grand Bay, British Leeward Islands (now Dominica)
Died
14 May 1979(1979-05-14) (aged 88) Exeter, Devon, England
Occupation
Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Genre
Modernism, postmodernism[1][2]
Notable works
Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Spouse
Jean Lenglet
(m. 1919; div. 1933)
Leslie Tilden-Smith
(m. 1934; died 1945)
Max Hamer
(m. 1947; died 1966)
Children
2
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), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.[4] In 1978, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writing.
Look up Rhys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rhys or Rhŷs is a popular Welsh given name (usually male) that is famous in Welsh history and is also...
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author JeanRhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's...
Rhys Owain Evans (Welsh pronunciation: [r̥ɨːs ˈivans]; born 22 July 1967), better known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his roles...
| Let Them Call it Jazz by JeanRhys". The London Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-10. Rhys, Jean, and PETER BURTON. "JeanRhys: INTERVIEWED BY PETER BURTON...
references and allusions to slavery, arguably its North American iteration. JeanRhys intended her critically acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea as an account...
Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of JeanRhys is a 2022 book by Miranda Seymour that examines the life of JeanRhys. The book has three "positive" reviews...
syllabus because "daffodils are not flowers Trinidad schoolchildren know" . JeanRhys, another writer who was born in the British West Indies, objected to daffodils...
late 1976 by André Deutsch of Great Britain, was famed Dominican author JeanRhys' final collection of short stories. The sixteen stories in this collection...
Nin, JeanRhys, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Renee Vivien, Edith Wharton Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Henri Matisse, Jean-Paul Sartre...
1898 novel is titled In the Sargasso Sea. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by JeanRhys is inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and gives Bertha Mason's history...
Voyage in the Dark was written in 1934 by JeanRhys. It tells of the semi-tragic descent of its young protagonist Anna Morgan, who is moved from her Caribbean...
literary critic, novelist and biographer of Robert Graves, Mary Shelley and JeanRhys among others. Seymour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She elected...
heiress, in Wide Sargasso Sea, based on the novel of the same name by JeanRhys. She had supporting parts in The Firm (1993) and Legends of the Fall (1994)...
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-24. Rhys, Jean (1968). Tigers are better-looking. Deutsch. OCLC 656160665. Rhys, Jean (1976). JeanRhys; the collected short stories...
The novelist JeanRhys was born and raised in Dominica. The island is obliquely depicted in her best-known book, Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys's friend, the...
Nicole Brown Simpson; she analyzed the literature of Charlotte Brontë, JeanRhys, Leo Tolstoy, Marquis de Sade, Kōbō Abe, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin...
the history of English novels. He had an affair with JeanRhys, which ended acrimoniously, which Rhys fictionalised in her novel Quartet. Ford is best remembered...
quill in 2013, or (as of 2018) George Eliot's pen, with pens belonging to JeanRhys and Andrea Levy being additional choices from 2020. From time to time...
Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton (England) Voyage in the Dark by JeanRhys (Dominica, France, England) Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara (US)...
for her roles in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet, based on the novel by JeanRhys, and in the horror film Possession (1981). The following year, she received...
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