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Jean Rhys (1890–1979)

Author of Wide Sargasso Sea

Includes the names: D Athill, Jean Rhys, Jean Rhys, ジーン リース, Jean; Introduced By Bel Mooney Rhys, Jean Introduction by Diana Athill Rhys

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Works by Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea 7,127 copies, 205 reviews
Good Morning, Midnight 1,160 copies, 28 reviews
Voyage in the Dark 693 copies, 13 reviews
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie 564 copies, 11 reviews
Quartet 554 copies, 6 reviews
Wide Sargasso Sea [Norton Critical Edition] 554 copies, 13 reviews
Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark; Quartet; After Leaving… (Author) 297 copies, 1 review
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography 216 copies, 2 reviews
Tigers Are Better-looking 200 copies, 4 reviews
Sleep It Off Lady 193 copies
The Collected Short Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction) 165 copies, 1 review
Let Them Call It Jazz 124 copies, 1 review
Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 103 copies
Till September Petronella (Penguin Modern) 28 copies
Early Novels 25 copies
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Also by Jean Rhys
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Contributor) 364 copies, 2 reviews
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (Contributor) 158 copies
Erotica : Women's writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (Contributor) 154 copies
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (Contributor) 110 copies, 3 reviews
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (Contributor) 99 copies, 1 review
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (Contributor) 88 copies
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Volume 2: The Twentieth Century (Contributor) 86 copies, 3 reviews
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (Contributor) 80 copies, 1 review
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (Contributor) 62 copies, 2 reviews
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review
Perversity (Translator, some editions) 51 copies
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (Contributor) 42 copies
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (Contributor) 36 copies
Haunting Women (Contributor) 31 copies
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (Contributor) 30 copies
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Canonical name
Legal name
Rees William, Ella Gwendolen (born)
Other names
Vivienne Gray
Emma Gray
Ella Gray
Date of birth
1890-08-24
Date of death
1979-05-14
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
UK
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
Place of death
Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Cause of death
Places of residence
London, England, UK
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, England, UK
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria
Education
Perse School, Cambridge
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
novelist
short-story writer
autobiographer
essayist
nude model
Relationships
Williams, William Rees (father)
Williams, Minna (mother)
Lenglet, Willem Johan Marie (Jean) (first husband)
Tilden-Smith, Leslie (second husband)
Hamer, Max (third husband)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1979)
Awards and honors
Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 1978)
Agents
Short biography
Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams wrote under the pseudonym Jean Rhys. She was born to a British-Creole family in the British colony of Dominica in the West Indies, and left the island in 1907. She began publishing her writing in the late 1920s. Her most famous work was Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which won the W.H. Smith Award and the Heinemann Award. In it, Rhys returned to her frequent themes of conflicting cultures, dominance and dependence. Jean Rhys died in Exeter, Devon, before finishing the autobiography she was working on. The incomplete text appeared posthumously under the title Smile Please (1979).
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