Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys, CBE , born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, was a mid20thcentury 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 Bronts Jane Eyre.

Rhys was born in Roseau, the capital of Dominica, an island in the British West Indies. Her father, William Rees Williams, was a Welsh doctor and her mother, Minna Williams, was a thirdgeneration Dominican Creole of Scots ancestry.

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