Jean Rhys (1890–1979)
Autor(a) de Wide Sargasso Sea
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark; Quartet; After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie; Good Morning, Midnight; Wide… (1985) — Autor — 325 exemplares
Acque infide (racconti) 4 exemplares
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
Associated Works
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Volume 2: The Twentieth Century (1991) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Josefina, bedien die Herren : Geschichten von Frauen und Männern aus Lateinamerika — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Rhys, Jean
- Nome legal
- Rees William, Ella Gwendolen (meisjesnaam)
- Outros nomes
- Vivienne Gray
Emma Gray
Ella Gray - Data de nascimento
- 1890-08-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1979-05-14
- Localização do túmulo
- St. Matthew's Church Cheriton Fitzpaine, Mid Devon District, Devon, England
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- Dominica
United Kingdom - Local de nascimento
- Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
- Local de falecimento
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, England, UK
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria - Educação
- Perse School, Cambridge
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Ocupações
- novelist
short-story writer
autobiographer
essayist
nude model - Relações
- 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) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1979)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1978)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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).
Membros
Discussions
2. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys em Backlisted Book Club (Março 2022)
Críticas
Vasto Mar de Sargaços por Jean Rhys
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 40
- Also by
- 24
- Membros
- 13,990
- Popularidade
- #1,643
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 343
- ISBN
- 275
- Línguas
- 17
- Marcado como favorito
- 62
- Pedras de toque
- 833
