One final twist: for 50 years, Rhys chose to be addressed in private and by friends as Ella. In 1966, after the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea, she asked those close to her finally to call her Jean, ...

Moderator Shahidha Bari (top left) discusses the impact of the late writer Jean Rhys on Caribbean literature with United States’ writer, translator and academic Lauren Elkin (top right), British ...

Mary Ann Gwinn is a writer and critic in Seattle. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys By: Miranda Seymour. Publisher: W.W. Norton, 368 pages, $32.50.

The author of 'You Should Have Known' and 'The Sequel' on Jean Rhys, 'Pride and Prejudice', and the book that has the best title.

The genius of novelist Jean Rhys (1890–1979) is painfully depicted in this compelling short biography, exploring what it was like to live such a tortured life.

Home Culture & Life Books Features Hisham Matar's 6 favorite books that are part of a collection The Pulitzer Prize-winning author recommends works by Jean Rhys, Michael Ondaatje, and more ...

Kerry Johnson, Mapping the Sea Change: Postcolonialism, Modernsim and Landscape in Jean Rhys's "Voyage in the Dark", Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Vol. 3, No. 3, Jean Rhys (Summer 2003), pp. 47-62 ...

Rereading Jean Rhys and Re-evaluating Margaret Thatcher Share full article The Jean Rhys papers, The University of Tulsa – McFarlin Library Dec. 6, 2019 ...

FRANCES IN THE COUNTRY, by Liz Garton Scanlon. Illustrated by Sean Qualls. (Neal Porter/Holiday House, $18.99, ages 4 to 8.) Frances is tired of city lights that say “stop.” So she visits the ...

Starring Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates and Maggie Smith, "Quartet" is a stellar, if less known, entry in the Ismael-James Ivory-Ruth Prawer Jhabvala canon.

Jean Rhys’s prequel to Jane Eyre explores the monstrous figure of Rochester’s mad wife Bertha, prompting readers to think about the racialised legacies of colonialism.

Rhys authored complex and oft-controversial female protagonists, Seymour notes: her 1931 novel After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, for example, featured a “morally dubious heroine” and was considered ...