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  2. Jean Rhys - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Sleep It Off Lady - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. I Used to Live Here Once - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Quartet (1981 film) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film) - Wikipedia

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    The novel and film explore Jean Rhys's account of the West Indian Creole heiress, here called Antoinette Cosway, who marries the Englishman Mr. Rochester, and becomes his "madwoman in the attic" featured in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. For a full-length summary see: plot summary of Wide Sargasso Sea.

  7. Jean Hanff Korelitz on Jean Rhys, 'Pride and Prejudice, ' and ...

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    The author of 'You Should Have Known' and 'The Sequel' on Jean Rhys, 'Pride and Prejudice', and the book that has the best title.

  8. The Left Bank and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Tigers Are Better-Looking - Wikipedia

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    Tigers are Better-Looking is a collection of short stories written by Dominican author Jean Rhys, published in 1968 by André Deutsch and reissued by Penguin ten years later. [1] This collection's first eight stories were written by Rhys during her 1950s period of obscurity and first published in the early 1960s.