Jean Rhys was born in 1890, August 24. Her hometown is Roseau, at Dominica, West Indies. This writer was of African descent, as the most Dominica’s people.
Her father, William Rees Williams, was a Welsh doctor and her mother, Minna Williams, was a third generation Dominican Creole of Scottish ancestry.
When she was a child, Jean was educated at a convent school in Roseau. She loved literature since yet and she loved to visit the places that she read about.
When she was 17, Rhys was sent to her father to England to live with her aunt. She attended the Perse School, Cambridge (1907-1908) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (1909).
When Jean’s father died, she was forced to leave her studies. Her mother, Minna Williams, wanted that Jean was live to the Caribbean, but Rhys wished to go to a musical tour as a chorus girl. In that tour, Jean wrote a book about furniture.
During World War I, Jean Rhys worked as volunteer in the soldiers’ canteen. In 1918, she worked in a pension office.
A year later, the writer went to Deutschland and married with the journalist and songwriter, Jean Lenglet.
She lived with him, in 1920 to 1922 in Vienna and Budapest, while Lenglet was working for a disarmament Commission. She also lived in Paris and mainly in England, after 1927.
Her father, William Rees Williams, was a Welsh doctor and her mother, Minna Williams, was a third generation Dominican Creole of Scottish ancestry.
When she was a child, Jean was educated at a convent school in Roseau. She loved literature since yet and she loved to visit the places that she read about.
When she was 17, Rhys was sent to her father to England to live with her aunt. She attended the Perse School, Cambridge (1907-1908) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (1909).
When Jean’s father died, she was forced to leave her studies. Her mother, Minna Williams, wanted that Jean was live to the Caribbean, but Rhys wished to go to a musical tour as a chorus girl. In that tour, Jean wrote a book about furniture.
During World War I, Jean Rhys worked as volunteer in the soldiers’ canteen. In 1918, she worked in a pension office.
A year later, the writer went to Deutschland and married with the journalist and songwriter, Jean Lenglet.
She lived with him, in 1920 to 1922 in Vienna and Budapest, while Lenglet was working for a disarmament Commission. She also lived in Paris and mainly in England, after 1927.
Jean Rhys and Jean Lenglet had two children. Their son died in infancy and then they had a daughter.
Rhys began writing under the patronage of Ford Madox Ford, whom she met in Paris, France. In that time, her husband, Jean Lenglet, was sentenced to prison for illegal financial transactions.
With her husband in prison, Rhys tried to support, only with her earnings, their daughter and herself.
Her patronage with Ford Madox Ford ended with a lot of bitterness.
With all that things happening in the Rhys’ life, the writer and her husband divorced, but in her books, instead of her second and third marriage, Jean talked all the time about Lenglet.
Rhys began writing under the patronage of Ford Madox Ford, whom she met in Paris, France. In that time, her husband, Jean Lenglet, was sentenced to prison for illegal financial transactions.
With her husband in prison, Rhys tried to support, only with her earnings, their daughter and herself.
Her patronage with Ford Madox Ford ended with a lot of bitterness.
With all that things happening in the Rhys’ life, the writer and her husband divorced, but in her books, instead of her second and third marriage, Jean talked all the time about Lenglet.
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