Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.
Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned
it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th
Century
*Michele Roberts*
Rhys's iconic prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is rich in
motifs and devices both modernist and postmodernist
*Hephzibah Anderson*
Beautiful and subversive [...] the novel didn't just take
inspiration from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, it illuminated and
confronted it, challenged the narrative.
*Paris Review*
Wide Sargasso Sea is not just a great novel, it is many brilliant
books in one
*Independent*
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