Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, CBE, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1894
running morning adventure
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
dream dark london
London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.
littles
I have arranged my little life.
eye thinking circles
I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this
beautiful real hunger
The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
world holy-rosary ends
As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
sides
There is always the other side, always.
earth sometimes breathe
Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.
writing thinking ifs
When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
rooms ghost empty
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.