Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys ( Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams actually ) ( born August 24, 1890 - possibly 1894 - in Roseau Dominica, † May 14, 1979 in Exeter, England) was a British- colonial writer.
Rhys was the daughter of a Welsh father and a Creole mother. She grew up in the Caribbean and came at the age of sixteen to England, where she was a member of a dance troupe in the English province first. During the 1920s, she moved to the European continent, and dwelt among others in Paris. During this time, Jean Rhys lived in near poverty. She busied herself with art and literature. The beginning of an alcohol disease falls into this time.
1923 Rhys began to write, and was then transported by the English writer and editor Ford Madox Ford. Until 1939 published first short stories and four novels.
Then the author fell for three decades into oblivion. 1966, the year in which her novel " Sargasso Sea " was released, Jean Rhys was rediscovered and gained literary reputation.
Works
- Postures in 1928; American Title Quartet, 1929.
- After leaving Mr. Mackenzie, 1931
- Voyage in the Dark, 1934
- Good Morning Midnight, 1939
- Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966 Sargasso Sea. Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8333-0264-0.
Edition of the letters:
- Jean Rhys 's Letters: 1931-1966. Ed. 1984, by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly.