Jean Rhys
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, Ella Rees Williams
British novelist (1890–1979)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 24 August 1890
- Died
- 14 May 1979
- Works
- 41
Top works
- After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
- Il Grande mare dei sargassi
- Good morning, midnight
- Collected Short Stories
- Till September Petronella
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Cardiff
- Active from
- 1970-07-18
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 17
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 30,525x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,186x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,645x
- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,848x
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Quotes
- “One October afternoon Mrs Baker was having tea with Miss Verney and talking about the proposed broiler factory in the middle of the village where they both lived. Miss Verney, who had not been listening attentively, said, 'You know Letty, I've been thinking a great deal about death lately. I hardly ever do, strangely enough.' (beginning of the story "Sleep It Off, Lady")”
- “I like emotion, I approve of it-in fact am capable of wallowing in it. (1946)”
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Key facts
- Born
- Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams , ( 1890-08-24 ) 24 August 1890, Roseau or Grand Bay , British Leeward Islands (now Dominica )
- Died
- 14 May 1979 (1979-05-14) (aged 88), Exeter , Devon, England
- Occupation
- Novelist, short story writer , essayist
- Genre
- Modernism , postmodernism
- Notable works
- Good Morning, Midnight (1939) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Spouse
- Jean Lenglet ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1919 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1933 ) Leslie Tilden-Smith ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1934 ; died 1945 ) Max Hamer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 ; died 1966 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Rhys (/riːs/ REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British Creole 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. She is best known for her final novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Rhys started writing intermittently around 1914, and found a literary mentor in Ford Madox Ford (with whom she also had an affair) in 1923. With his assistance and encouragement, her first work of fiction—The Left Bank and Other Stories—was published in 1927. This was followed by four short semi-autobiographical novels about women navigating perilous circumstances across London and Paris: Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931), Voyage in the Dark (1934), and Good Morning, Midnight (1939). After these publications failed to lead to significant financial or critical success, Rhys felt her writing career had stalled, and largely withdrew from public life.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Rhys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.