Jean Rhys
Born in 1890
Fiction
Jean Rhys was a British novelist born in Dominica in 1890.
She moved to England at 16 and later lived in Paris, experiences that influenced her writing.
Rhys's early life was marked by financial struggles and alcoholism, themes that often appeared in her work.
She is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966 when she was 76, which brought her critical acclaim after years of obscurity.
Rhys's writing explores themes of displacement, patriarchal society, and the female experience, drawing from her own life as a white Creole woman in a post-colonial world.
