Jean Rhys

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Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in 1890, was a 20th-century novelist and writer of short stories. Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, she moved to England at age 16, became a chorus girl, and embarked on the life of a demimondaine there and in Europe. Her deep sense of being an outsider -- the descendant of white colonialists in the Caribbean, then a Creole in England -- never left her and deeply informed her work. Rhys's evocative sketches in the 1920s caught the eye, and briefly earned the patronage, of Ford Madox Ford (her fraught relationship with him is explored in her debut novel, Quartet [1928]). She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which examined the character of Bertha Rochester (in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre) from a different angle.

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After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Representative edition published 2020
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Good morning, midnight
Representative edition published 2020
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Till September Petronella
Representative edition published 2018
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La Grosse Fifi
Representative edition published 2011
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Meng hui zao hai
Representative edition published 2002
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Postures
Representative edition published 2001
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Representative edition published 2000
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Representative edition published 1999
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Voyage in the Dark
Representative edition published 1998
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Tigers are better-looking
Representative edition published 1996
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Letters, 1931-1966
Representative edition published 1995
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Let them call it jazz and other stories
Representative edition published 1995
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Il ne faut pas tirer les oiseaux au repos
Representative edition published 1994
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The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories
Representative edition published 1994
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The Collected Short Stories
Representative edition published 1992
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Tigers are better-looking
Representative edition published 1986
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Jean Rhys
Representative edition published 1985
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Jean Rhys
Representative edition published 1985
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Tales of the Wide Caribbean
Representative edition published 1985
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The letters of Jean Rhys
Representative edition published 1984
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After leaving Mr. Mackenzie / Jean Rhys
Representative edition published 1982
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Smile Please
Representative edition published 1979
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Sleep it off lady
Representative edition published 1976
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Prelude to Poetry
Representative edition published 1971
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