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| Name: |
Jean Rhys | | Variant Name: |
Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams | | Birth Date: |
August 24, 1890 | | Death Date: |
May 14, 1979 | | Place of Birth: |
Roseau, Dominica | | Place of Death: |
Exeter, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Jean Rhys
19,114 words, approx. 64 pages
 Jean Rhys claimed to have been born in 1894, but it is more probable that she was born on 24 August 1890. The daughter of Rhys Williams, a doctor, and Minna Lockhart, Ella Gwen Rhys Williams was born in Roseau, Dominica, an island in the Lesser...
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Biography of Jean Rhys
10,141 words, approx. 34 pages
 Jean Rhys is a significant writer who lived a difficult life full of personal tragedies, setbacks, and self-doubts: three marriages, the loss of her first child and the absence of her second one for long periods, financial strain, and psychological...
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Biography of Jean Rhys
8,934 words, approx. 30 pages
 Although Jean Rhys has been recognized as an important, if not a major, figure among twentieth-century British fiction writers, this critical evaluation came only at the end of her life, long after she had published the bulk of her work. Rhys published...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jean Rhys Information
563 words, approx. 2 pages
 Jean Rhys (August 24, 1890 - May 14, 1979), originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were published during the 1920s and 1930s, but it was not until the publication of...



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 Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies
[Jean Rhys]
01/01/2000: 996 words, approx. 3 pages Although she died some 20 years ago, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) is enjoying a remarkable evaluation (even rehabilitation) since the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966. Also, much of Rhys writing is only now seeing the light of day, a fact that contributes to...
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 The Independent - London
Jean Rhys
03/11/1995: 967 words, approx. 3 pages I heard of Jean Rhys for the first time in the early Seventies, when I was 20 and at Edinburgh University, where I shared an apartment opposite the Royal Infirmary with a woman called Lindsay who wrote short stories and poems and had a...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Elaine Savory
11,055 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Savory traces Rhys's development as a short story writer and describes her revision process.
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Critical Essay by Coral Ann Howells
9,018 words, approx. 30 pages
 In the following essay, Howells elucidates the defining characteristics of Rhys's late short fiction—particularly her central themes of gender and colonialism—through an examination of five of her stories.
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Critical Essay by Clara Thomas
6,896 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following essay, Thomas examines the narrative structure and psychological dynamics of the relationship between Rochester and Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea.


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