Jean Rhys CBE (/ riːs / 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. …

Jean Rhys was a West Indian novelist who earned acclaim for her early works set in the bohemian world of Europe in the 1920s and ’30s but who stopped writing for nearly three …

Mar 7, 2016 · Jean Rhys (1890 – 1979) was a novelist best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel and post-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

Jean Rhys lived at this house on the corner of Independence Street (then Granby Street) and Cork Street. She was born elsewhere in Roseau, but there are many descriptions of it in her …

At the age of 76, her "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre won a prestigious WH Smith Literary Award in 1967, and the Heinemann Award. Rhys's Creole heritage, her experiences …

Jan 15, 2023 · A new biography of Jean Rhys, the Dominican-born author of Wide Sargasso Sea, pays close attention to her origins – but stops short of examining the colonial relations that are …

Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams on August 24, 1890, in Roseau, Dominica, was a significant novelist and short story writer known for her poignant exploration of marginalized …