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    from Ella Williams to Jean Rhys. At the time her husband was in jail for what Rhys described as currency irregularities. Rhys moved in with Ford and...
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  • Look up Rhys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rhys or Rhŷs is a popular Welsh given name (usually male) that is famous in Welsh history and is also...
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  • Wide Sargasso Sea (category Novels by Jean Rhys)
    Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's...
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  • Midnight is a 1939 modernist novel by the author Jean Rhys. Often considered a continuation of Rhys' three other early novels, Quartet (1928), After Leaving...
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  • from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the 1928 novel by Jean Rhys. The film stars Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani and Anthony...
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  • Tigers Are Better-Looking (category Short story collections by Jean Rhys)
    author Jean Rhys, published in 1968 by André Deutsch and reissued by Penguin ten years later. This collection's first eight stories were written by Rhys during...
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    Rhys Owain Evans (Welsh pronunciation: [r̥ɨːs ˈivans]; born 22 July 1967), known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor. His portrayed roles in Notting Hill (1999)...
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  • Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys is a 2022 book by Miranda Seymour that examines the life of Jean Rhys. The book has three "positive" reviews...
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  • publisher's preferred title Postures, which Rhys disliked. After it was well received in the US as Quartet (1929), Rhys had later UK editions re-titled to her...
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    references and allusions to slavery, arguably its North American iteration. Jean Rhys intended her critically acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea as an account...
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  • | Let Them Call it Jazz by Jean Rhys". The London Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-10. Rhys, Jean, and PETER BURTON. "Jean Rhys: INTERVIEWED BY PETER BURTON...
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    Nin, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Renee Vivien, Edith Wharton Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Henri Matisse, Jean-Paul Sartre...
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  • Nathaniel Parker. It is an adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. The novel and film explore Jean Rhys's account of the West Indian Creole heiress...
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    heiress, in Wide Sargasso Sea, based on the novel of the same name by Jean Rhys. She had supporting parts in The Firm (1993) and Legends of the Fall (1994)...
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  • Sleep It Off Lady (category Short story collections by Jean Rhys)
    late 1976 by André Deutsch of Great Britain, was famed Dominican author Jean Rhys' final collection of short stories. The sixteen stories in this collection...
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    1898 novel is titled In the Sargasso Sea. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys is inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and gives Bertha Mason's history...
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  • Voyage in the Dark (category Novels by Jean Rhys)
    Voyage in the Dark was written in 1934 by Jean Rhys. It tells of the semi-tragic descent of its young protagonist Anna Morgan, who is moved from her Caribbean...
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  • Jean Rhys: Letters 1931–1966 is a posthumous compilation of author Jean Rhys's letters, first published in 1984 by André Deutsch and from 1985 by Penguin...
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    for her roles in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet, based on the novel by Jean Rhys, and in the horror film Possession (1981). The following year, she received...
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    syllabus because "daffodils are not flowers Trinidad schoolchildren know" . Jean Rhys, another writer who was born in the British West Indies, objected to daffodils...
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  • After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (category Novels by Jean Rhys)
    than in other early Rhys novels. The protagonist is Julia Martin, Rhys's fictional counterpart. Julia's three romantic figures Rhys calls "Mr" (Mr Mackenzie...
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  • literary critic, novelist and biographer of Robert Graves, Mary Shelley and Jean Rhys among others. Seymour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She elected...
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    Nicole Brown Simpson; she analyzed the literature of Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Leo Tolstoy, Marquis de Sade, Kōbō Abe, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin...
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  • The Left Bank and Other Stories (category Short story collections by Jean Rhys)
    ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-24. Rhys, Jean (1968). Tigers are better-looking. Deutsch. OCLC 656160665. Rhys, Jean (1976). Jean Rhys; the collected short stories...
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    The novelist Jean Rhys was born and raised in Dominica. The island is obliquely depicted in her best-known book, Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys's friend, the...
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    the history of English novels. He had an affair with Jean Rhys, which ended acrimoniously, which Rhys fictionalised in her novel Quartet. Ford is best remembered...
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    Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth (1998). "Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey: The Story of a Friendship" (PDF). The Jean Rhys Review. 9 (1–2): 9. Archived from...
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    quill in 2013, or (as of 2018) George Eliot's pen, with pens belonging to Jean Rhys and Andrea Levy being additional choices from 2020. From time to time...
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    tropical West Indian climate. The 1966 parallel novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys serves as a prequel to Brontë's novel. It is the story of Bertha (there...
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    Parker played Edward Rochester in John Duigan's 1993 film adaptation of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. Reviewing this 'prequel' to Jane Eyre, Vincent Canby...
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