Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
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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rediscovered, living reclusively in Cornwall –in the twenty years which had gone by she had accumulateda collection of unpublished stories.• 1966: her <strong>Wide</strong> <strong>Sargasso</strong> <strong>Sea</strong> 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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