Jean Rhys



Jean Rhys

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born December 13, 1901
died May 14, 1979
gender female
place of birth Dominica
genre Literature & Fiction

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Jean Rhys (August 24, 1890 - May 14, 1979), originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were published during the 1920s and 1930s, but it was not until the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 that she emerged as a significant literary figure. A "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea won a prestigious WH Smith Literary Award in 1967.

Rhys was born in Dominica (a formerly British island in the Caribbean) to a Welsh father and Scottish mother. She moved to England at the age of sixteen, where she worked unsuccessfully as a chorus girl. In the 1920s, she relocated to Europe, travelling as a Bohemian artist and taking up reside...more

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avg rating: 3.70 | 2956 ratings | 19 distinct works
Good Morning, Midnight Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 3.98 — 188 ratings — published 1939
9 editions
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After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 3.89 — 87 ratings — published 1931
11 editions
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Quartet Quartet (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 3.76 — 79 ratings — published 1928
12 editions
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Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 3.39 — 79 ratings — published 1966
42 editions
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Voyage in the Dark Voyage in the Dark
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 3.97 — 34 ratings — published 1935
9 editions
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The Collected Short Stories The Collected Short Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published 1987
2 editions
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Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Good Morning, Midnight, Wide Sargasso Sea)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 4.29 — 24 ratings — published 1985
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Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by ... Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 1976
7 editions
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Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 1984
4 editions
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Tigers are Better-Looking: Wit... Tigers are Better-Looking: With a selection from The Left Bank (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Jean Rhys
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 1996
5 editions
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quotes by Jean Rhys

"“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. "
Jean Rhys
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"They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. "
Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea)
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