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4. JEAN RHYS• 1890: born at Roseau (Dominica)the daughter of a Welsh doctor and a Creole (white WestIndian) mother, she spent World War I in England.• 1920s: she lived a rootless, wandering life on the Continent(mainly in Paris and Vienna) working as a chorus girl, amannequin, an artist’s model before publishing her firstcollection of stories The Left Bank (1927).Enthusiastic comments came from the literarycritic Ford Madox Ford but her first fournovels were not successful: with their femalecharacters exploited for and exploiting theirsexuality in a brutally honest manner and their “passion forstating the case of the underdog (=perdente)” they were decadesahead of their time in theme and tone.2
4. JEAN RHYS• 1939: after Good Morning, Midnight (her fifth novel) JeanRhys disappeared and her five books went out of print – itwas generally thought that she was dead.• 1958: she was rediscovered, living reclusively in Cornwall –in the twenty years which had gone by she had accumulateda collection of unpublished stories.• 1966: her Wide Sargasso Sea was a sensationalsuccess – her only comment on it was “It hascome too late”…• 1979: she died in Exeter – the critic A. Alvarezdescribed her as “one of the finest Britishwriters of this century”. 3
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