Seen." (in After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, 1931) The sea of a chromo or of some tropical country that she had never Like the trees of a London square in spring or of a dark-purple sea, Sunshine or trees with slender black branches and young green leaves, Would lie thinking of the dark shadows of houses in a street white with It was always places that she thought of, not people. Theme of a helpless female, an outsider, who is victimized by herĭependence on an older man for support and protection. Rhys's fiction was more or less autobiographical, often dealing with Mad wife, Bertha Mason, in Charlotte Brontë's Sargasso Sea (1966), a novel that gave voice to Edward Rochester's Jean Rhys called herselfĪs "a doormat in a world of boots." She is best known for Wide The seedy side of life featured in her work. Self-destructive and alcoholic, whose rootlessness and familiarity with Jean Rhys (1890-1979) - pseudonym of Ella Gwendoline Rees A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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