Jean Rhys (1890–1979)
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Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea 5 exemplars
Acque infide (racconti) 4 exemplars
DETI I PAANE I SARGASEVE 1 exemplars
Caro, caro mr Ramage (in Acque infide) 1 exemplars
Viagem no escuro 1 exemplars
“The Day They Burned the Books” 1 exemplars
Rhys, Jean (Gwen Williams) Archive 1 exemplars
Werke in vier Bänden 1 exemplars
The Lotus 1 exemplars
Temps Perdi [short story] 1 exemplars
I Spy a Stranger [short story] 1 exemplars
あの人たちが本を焼いた日 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Col·laborador — 93 exemplars
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
Regarding Jane Eyre: Writers Respond to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1997) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Josefina, bedien die Herren : Geschichten von Frauen und Männern aus Lateinamerika — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Rhys, Jean
- Nom oficial
- Rees William, Ella Gwendolen (meisjesnaam)
- Altres noms
- Vivienne Gray
Emma Gray
Ella Gray - Data de naixement
- 1890-08-24
- Data de defunció
- 1979-05-14
- Lloc d'enterrament
- St. Matthew's Church Cheriton Fitzpaine, Mid Devon District, Devon, England
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- Dominica
United Kingdom - Lloc de naixement
- Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
- Lloc de defunció
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, England, UK
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria - Educació
- Perse School, Cambridge
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
autobiographer
essayist
nude model - Relacions
- 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) - Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1979)
- Premis i honors
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1978)
- Biografia breu
- 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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2. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys a Backlisted Book Club (març 2022)
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Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 43
- També de
- 24
- Membres
- 14,288
- Popularitat
- #1,611
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 354
- ISBN
- 279
- Llengües
- 18
- Preferit
- 64