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Rhys

(rēs), Jean Originally Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams. 1890-1979.

West Indian-born British writer known for Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a novel based on the character of the first Mrs. Rochester in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

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Rhys

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(Biography) Jean (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams). ?1890–1979, Welsh novelist and short-story writer, born in Dominica. Her novels include Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

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Rhys, Jean. "Let them Call it Jazz." Tigers Are Better Looking.

Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics

Rhys, Jean. (1982), Wide Sargasso Sea, New York: Norton.

The law of language and the law of structure in the dominant masculine discourse of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Maureen Lipman, Ron Cook and Jamie Foreman guest star alongside David Tennant, Billie Piper, Debra Gillett, Rory Jennings, Margaret John, Sam Cox, Ieuan Rhys, Jean Challis, Christopher Driscoll and Marie Lewis.