Jean Rhys (1890–1979)
Forfatter af Wide Sargasso Sea
Om forfatteren
Jean Rhys, 1890 - 1979 Writer Jean Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. Her father was a Welsh doctor and her mother was a Dominican Creole. Her heritage deeply influenced her life as well as her writing. At seventeen, her father sent her to England to attend the Perse School, Cambridge vis mere and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Unfortunately, she was forced to abandon her studies when her father died. Rhys worked as a chorus girl and ghostwrote a book on furniture. During World War I, she volunteered in a soldier canteen and, in 1918, worked in a pension office. In 1919, she went to Holland and married the French-Dutch journalist and songwriter Jean Langlet. They had two children, a daughter and a son who died as an infant. She began writing under the patronage of Ford Madox Ford. Her husband was sentenced to prison for illegal financial transactions. Her affair ended badly with Ford, and her marriage ended in divorce. In 1934, she married Leslie Tilden Smith who died in 1945. Two years later, she married Max Hamer who died in 1966. Rhys lived many years in the West Country, most often in great poverty. In 1927, Rhys' first collection of stories, "The Left Bank and Other Stories," was published. Her first novel, "Quartet" (1928), is considered to be an account of her affair with Ford Madox Ford told through Marya, a young English woman. In "Voyage in the Dark" (1934), the character is a young chorus girl involved with an older lover. She has also written "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939) and "Sleep It Off Lady" (1976) and the internationally acclaimed "Wide Sargasso Sea" (1960). Rhys was made a CBE in 1978 and received the W.H. Smith Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and an Arts Council Bursart. Rhys died on May 14, 1979 in Exeter. In the same year, her unfinished autobiography "Smile Please" appeared. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Jean Rhys foto: Modernista
Værker af Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea 5 eksemplarer
Acque infide (racconti) 4 eksemplarer
Caro, caro mr Ramage (in Acque infide) 1 eksemplar
Viagem no escuro 1 eksemplar
DETI I PAANE I SARGASEVE 1 eksemplar
I Spy a Stranger [short story] 1 eksemplar
Rhys, Jean (Gwen Williams) Archive 1 eksemplar
“The Day They Burned the Books” 1 eksemplar
Temps Perdi [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Lotus 1 eksemplar
Werke in vier Bänden 1 eksemplar
あの人たちが本を焼いた日 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Bidragyder — 97 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Josefina, bedien die Herren : Geschichten von Frauen und Männern aus Lateinamerika — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Rhys, Jean
- Juridisk navn
- Rees William, Ella Gwendolen (meisjesnaam)
- Andre navne
- Vivienne Gray
Emma Gray
Ella Gray - Fødselsdato
- 1890-08-24
- Dødsdag
- 1979-05-14
- Begravelsessted
- St. Matthew's Church Cheriton Fitzpaine, Mid Devon District, Devon, England
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- Dominica
United Kingdom - Fødested
- Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
- Dødssted
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Bopæl
- London, England, UK
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, England, UK
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria - Uddannelse
- Perse School for Girls, Cambridge
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Erhverv
- novelist
short-story writer
autobiographer
essayist
nude model - Relationer
- Williams, William Rees (father)
Williams, Minna (mother)
Lenglet, Willem Johan Marie Jean aka Edouard de Nève (first husband)
Tilden-Smith, Leslie (second husband)
Hamer, Max (third husband) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1979)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1978)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1979) - Kort biografi
- 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).
Medlemmer
Discussions
2. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys i Backlisted Book Club (marts 2022)
Anmeldelser
Wide Sargasso Sea af Jean Rhys
4/5 ⭐️s. In looking around, reviews are all over the place on this one. The writing was difficult to comprehend at times because of (I believe) the stream of consciousness POV shifts between Rochester and Antoinette, but I loved the challenge. I got lost inside Antoinette's mind and truly felt for her and her impossible situation. I now understand Rochester better, but that doesn't mean I like Mr. Byronic Badman anymore than I did in JANE EYRE. The descriptions of the landscape in Jamaica/Dominica were gorgeously lush; one could see why Antoinette's heart belonged there. A post-colonial look at Britain's and France's imposed domination over these islands was heartbreaking to read, but I learned so much history about this period that I didn't know before.… (mere)
I finished it, but I was confused, couldnt follow it, it made no sense. Its supposed to be the pre-quel to Jane Eyre which is such a wonderful idea, but I was befuddled and did not enjoy it.
She spoke as if she were trying to recall a book she had read or a story she had heard and Mr Horsfield felt irritated by her vagueness, 'because', he thought, 'your life is your life and you must be pretty definite about it. Or if it's a story you are making up, you ought at least to have it pat.'
A strange, lonely, forceful novel, entirely in line with Rhys' canon. Julia Martin, the novel's central character, is a sort of down-at-heel Lily Bart, the heroine from Wharton's The House of Mirth. A woman reliant on the charity of others, especially men, never quite strong enough to continue on her own but also uncertain if, or how, she could do so anyway. Flitting between a lonely London and a lonely Paris, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a study of those lost in the cracks of society, of the kind of cafard found in late 19th century naturalist paintings, and of the slow urban isolation felt, then, especially by women, and now, perhaps, by many more of us?… (mere)
A strange, lonely, forceful novel, entirely in line with Rhys' canon. Julia Martin, the novel's central character, is a sort of down-at-heel Lily Bart, the heroine from Wharton's The House of Mirth. A woman reliant on the charity of others, especially men, never quite strong enough to continue on her own but also uncertain if, or how, she could do so anyway. Flitting between a lonely London and a lonely Paris, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a study of those lost in the cracks of society, of the kind of cafard found in late 19th century naturalist paintings, and of the slow urban isolation felt, then, especially by women, and now, perhaps, by many more of us?… (mere)
This book is a masterpiece and is on the list of the greatest books.(https://thegreatestbooks.org/)
It tells the story of Bertha Rochester, the "madwoman in the attic", wife of Mr. Rocchester, in the book Jane Eyre.
The book takes readers to Jamaica, circa 1840-1850. The narrative changes, several times, somewhat abruptly from Antoinetta Cosway (aka Bertha Rochester) and Mr. Rochester. It tells the sad tale of arranged marriage, lust mistaken for love, and eventual despair that morphs into madness.… (mere)
It tells the story of Bertha Rochester, the "madwoman in the attic", wife of Mr. Rocchester, in the book Jane Eyre.
The book takes readers to Jamaica, circa 1840-1850. The narrative changes, several times, somewhat abruptly from Antoinetta Cosway (aka Bertha Rochester) and Mr. Rochester. It tells the sad tale of arranged marriage, lust mistaken for love, and eventual despair that morphs into madness.… (mere)
Lister
AP Lit (1)
1960s (2)
Cooper (1)
Best First Lines (1)
Ocean Setting (1)
Schwob Nederland (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Backlisted (1)
Folio Society (1)
Reading Globally (1)
Unread books (1)
Stuff from Bard (1)
Best Beach Reads (1)
Parallel Novels (1)
Favourite Books (1)
1930s (2)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Female Author (1)
Short and Sweet (1)
Five star books (1)
Hæderspriser
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 40
- Also by
- 26
- Medlemmer
- 14,380
- Popularitet
- #1,595
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 359
- ISBN
- 276
- Sprog
- 18
- Udvalgt
- 64
