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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.
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.
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).
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[25] [26] I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys was published by Harper Collins in 2022. [27] [28] Seymour reviews and has written articles for newspapers and literary journals, including The Economist, The Times, the Times Literary Supplement, [the Financial Times, the Literary Review, and the New York Review of Books.
Lykiard has in addition written non-fiction, including two books that draw on his friendship with Jean Rhys (Lykiard is a long-time resident of Exeter, Devon, and would visit Rhys in the nearby village of Cheriton Fitzpaine, where she lived for the last two decades of her life): Jean Rhys Revisited (2000) and Jean Rhys: Afterwords (2006).
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.
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