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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
19114 words, approx. 63.7 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 Antilles.... summary from source:
 Biography of Jean Rhys
10141 words, approx. 33.8 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 confl... summary from source:
Biography of Jean Rhys
8934 words, approx. 29.8 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 h...
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 Wide Sargasso Sea Summary
5,687 words, approx. 19 pagesWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Born in 1890 in Roseau, Dominica, the West Indies, Jean Rhys was of mixed parentage. Her father, Dr. William Rhys, was a Welshman, and her mother, Minna Williams, was a Creole. In 1907, Rhys left Dominica to attend the... summary from source:
 Wide Sargasso Sea Information
927 words, approx. 3 pages
 Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys. After many years of living in obscurity since her last work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939, Wide Sargasso Sea put Rhys into the limelight once...
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 The Boston Globe `Wide Sargasso Sea': Lush with sexual and colonial politics
05/14/1993: 771 words, approx. 3 pages WIDE SARGASSO SEA Directed by: John Duigan Screenplay by: Duigan, Jan Sharp, Carole Angier (novel: Jean Rhys) Starring: Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswicke, Claudia Robinson, Ancile Gloudin, Ben Thomas Playing at: Nickelodeon,... summary from source:
The Boston Globe `Wide Sargasso Sea' is much too calm
01/07/1994: 381 words, approx. 1 pages NEW RELEASES: "Wide Sargasso Sea" (New Line) -- Jean Rhys' novel "Wide Sargasso Sea," a riff on the madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," is brought reluctantly to the screen. The plot revolves around the marriage of a gorgeous sugar heiress...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Kathy Mezei
6,353 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Mezei examines the narrative structure and presentation of Antoinette's madness in Wide Sargasso Sea. According to Mezei, Antoinette's deteriorating mental state is linked to her inability to remember and recount her story.
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Critical Essay by Dennis Porter
5,609 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Porter examines Rhys's portrayal of alienated and dispossessed female protagonists and the interrelationship of Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre.
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Critical Essay by Jan Curtis
5,339 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Curtis examines the use of paradoxical imagery and metaphor to portray Antoinette's death and transformation in Wide Sargasso Sea.
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 89%What Are the Origins of Lunacy?
1,478 words, approx. 5 pages
This essay on Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys seeks to prove that Antoinette's (Bertha Mason) lunacy was not merely a product of her environment (i.e. inbreeding/heredity), but more importantly a result of the vast and irreconcilable cultural differences between Rochester and her. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 94%Opposing Views in Wide Sargasso Sea
851 words, approx. 3 pages
Jean Rhys and her use of opposing views in "Wide Sargasso Sea." Essay describes how this can entirely change the reader's understanding of the characters and the events in a story.
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys | |
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