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Jean Rhys, CBE (/ r iː s / REESS; [3] born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education.
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys is a 2022 book by Miranda Seymour that examines the life of Jean Rhys.The book has three "positive" reviews, ten "rave" reviews and one "pan" review, according to review aggregator Book Marks.
Sleep It Off Lady, originally published in late 1976 by André Deutsch of Great Britain, was famed Dominican author Jean Rhys' final collection of short stories. [1] The sixteen stories in this collection stretch over an approximate 75-year period, starting from the end of the nineteenth century (November 1899) to the present time of writing (c. 1975).
The Left Bank and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories and literary debut of Dominican author Jean Rhys.It was first published by Jonathan Cape (London) and Harper & Brothers (New York) in 1927, and contained an introduction by Ford Madox Ford.
Jean Rhys: Letters 1931–1966 is a posthumous compilation of author Jean Rhys's letters, first published in 1984 by André Deutsch [1] and from 1985 by Penguin Books. [2]The letters were selected and edited by Diana Melly (wife of George Melly and close friend of Jean Rhys) [3] with Francis Wyndham, who had helped revive Rhys's writing career late in her life.
Quartet is a 1981 period drama film directed by James Ivory from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the 1928 novel by Jean Rhys. The film stars Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani and Anthony Higgins, and is set in 1927 Paris. It premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.
Good Morning, Midnight is a 1939 modernist novel by the author Jean Rhys.Often considered a continuation of Rhys' three other early novels, Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931) and Voyage in the Dark (1934), it is experimental in design and deals with a woman's feelings of vulnerability, depression, loneliness and desperation during the years between the two World Wars.
"Let Them Call It Jazz" is one of the short stories Jean Rhys' wrote at Cheriton Fitzpaine during her absence from the literary spotlight. The story was first published in The London Magazine in 1962, and later appeared with other of Rhys' short stories in her 1968 compilation Tigers Are Better-Looking. [2]