Jean Rhys (1890–1979)
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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark; Quartet; After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie; Good Morning, Midnight; Wide… (1985) — Författare — 325 exemplar
Acque infide (racconti) 4 exemplar
Werke in vier Bänden 1 exemplar
Caro, caro mr Ramage (in Acque infide) 1 exemplar
The Lotus 1 exemplar
Rhys, Jean (Gwen Williams) Archive 1 exemplar
“The Day They Burned the Books” 1 exemplar
Carole Angier 1 exemplar
Viagem no escuro 1 exemplar
Temps Perdi [short story] 1 exemplar
I Spy a Stranger [short story] 1 exemplar
DETI I PAANE I SARGASEVE 1 exemplar
あの人たちが本を焼いた日 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Volume 2: The Twentieth Century (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 97 exemplar
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Josefina, bedien die Herren : Geschichten von Frauen und Männern aus Lateinamerika — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Rhys, Jean
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Rees William, Ella Gwendolen (meisjesnaam)
- Andra namn
- Vivienne Gray
Emma Gray
Ella Gray - Födelsedag
- 1890-08-24
- Avled
- 1979-05-14
- Begravningsplats
- St. Matthew's Church Cheriton Fitzpaine, Mid Devon District, Devon, England
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- Dominica
United Kingdom - Födelseort
- Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
- Dödsort
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- London, England, UK
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, England, UK
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria - Utbildning
- Perse School, Cambridge
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Yrken
- 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 och utmärkelser
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1978)
- 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).
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Diskussioner
2. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys i Backlisted Book Club (mars 2022)
Recensioner
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?… (mer)
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?… (mer)
This featured a clearly mentally unwell woman who muses on her tragic past and obsesses about herself, her appearance, and men, and sex with men, while drinking vast amounts of alcohol and resenting the fact that she has very little money. She was very occasionally dryly funny, but otherwise everyone and everything was unpleasant, unlikable, hostile.
Possibly the most depressing book I have ever read (and I've read 'A Little Life').
Possibly the most depressing book I have ever read (and I've read 'A Little Life').
The thing that I found so striking as I read this was how subtle the writing is and how much breath flows through its 171 pages. The themes of power/control/hatred/safety are prominent. Much can also be said about the feeling of being in-between (colonial generations, nationalities, race, etc.) A lot to ponder, and definitely something I will want reread in the future.
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- Verk
- 40
- Även av
- 24
- Medlemmar
- 13,990
- Popularitet
- #1,643
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 343
- ISBN
- 275
- Språk
- 17
- Favoritmärkt
- 62
- Proberstenar
- 833
That probably sounds too critical I did like it. It was powerful writing. I just don't have the skills to say more than "it was really depressing and the stuff she was put through was horrible". The mental illness stuff probably hit closest to home for me - the sense of reactions to terrible traumas and awful situations proving inherent "madness" which requires people to be locked up for their own good. It's horrible and chilling to read. I dunno yeah it's good I just need more understanding on my own part to get the most out of it. it's good though… (mer)