Jean Rhys

1890–1979

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Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in 1890, was a 20th-century novelist and short story writer. Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, she moved to England at 16, became a chorus girl, and lived as a demimondaine there and in Europe. Her sense of being an outsider deeply informed her work. Her sketches of the 1920s earned the patronage of Ford Madox Ford. She is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), examining Bertha Rochester from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. She lived from 1890 to 1979.

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1890