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IT WAS ABOUT half-past five on an October afternoon when Mayra Zelli came out of the Cafe Lavenue, which is a dignified and comparatively expensive establishment on the Boulevard du Montparnasse.
Themes & subjects
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)FictionImprisonmentYoung womenMarried people
First published 2000Setting
Paris (France)
About the author
Jean Rhys
24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979
Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in 1890, was a 20th-century novelist and writer of short stories. Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, she moved to England at age 16, became a chorus girl, and embarked on the life of a demimondaine there and in Europe. Her deep sense of being an outsider -- the descendant of white colonialists in the Caribbean, then a Creole in England -- never left her and deeply informed her work. Rhys's evocative sketches in the 1920s caught the eye, and briefly earned the patronage, of Ford Madox Ford (her fraught relationship with him is explored in her debut novel, Quartet [1928]). She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966…
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