Jean Rhys : life and work

Langue : anglais

Edité par London : Andre Deutsch, [Finalnd, SWOY], 1990, 1990

0233985972 / 9780233985978

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[1st edition]; 1st printing ; xiv, 762 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm ; LC: PR6035.H96; Dewey: 823.912 ; ISBN: 0233985972; 9780233985978 ; OCLC: 23072261 ; blue cloth, in color photographic dustjacket ; Writer Jean Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. Her father was a Welsh doctor and her mother was a Dominican Creole. Her heritage deeply influenced her life as well as her writing. At seventeen, her father sent her to England to attend the Perse School, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Unfortunately, she was forced to abandon her studies when her father died. Rhys worked as a chorus girl and ghostwrote a book on furniture. During World War I, she volunteered in a soldier canteen and, in 1918, worked in a pension office. In 1919, she went to Holland and married the French-Dutch journalist and songwriter Jean Langlet. They had two children, a daughter and a son who died as an infant. She began writing under the patronage of Ford Madox Ford. Her husband was sentenced to prison for illegal financial transactions. Her affair ended badly with Ford, and her marriage ended in divorce. In 1934, she married Leslie Tilden Smith who died in 1945. Two years later, she married Max Hamer who died in 1966. Rhys lived many years in the West Country, most often in great poverty. In 1927, Rhys' first collection of stories, "The Left Bank and Other Stories," was published. Her first novel, "Quartet" (1928), is considered to be an account of her affair with Ford Madox Ford told through Marya, a young English woman. In "Voyage in the Dark" (1934), the character is a young chorus girl involved with an older lover. She has also written "Good Morning, Midnight" (1939) and "Sleep It Off Lady" (1976) and the internationally acclaimed "Wide Sargasso Sea" (1960). Rhys was made a CBE in 1978 and received the W.H. Smith Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and an Arts Council Bursart. Rhys died on May 14, 1979 in Exeter. In the same year, her unfinished autobiography "Smile Please" appeared.; FINE/FINE.…

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Titre
Jean Rhys : life and work
Auteur
Angier, Carole, 1943- ; illustration, Dorothea St-John George, Wolmark, Simon Segal,
Éditeur
London : Andre Deutsch, [Finalnd, SWOY], 1990
Année de publication
1990
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Fine
Type de livre
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Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0233985972
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780233985978
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1st Edition.

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