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Rhys, Jean

LC control no.n 80013225
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6035.H96
Personal name headingRhys, Jean
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Variant(s)Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees
Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen
Associated countryEngland and Wales
Birth date1890-08-24
Death date1979-05-14
Place of birthRoseau (Dominica)
Place of deathExeter (England)
Profession or occupationNovelists
Found inHer Quartet, 1929.
Mellown, E.W. Jean Rhys, 1984: CIP t.p. (Jean Rhys) introd. (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams; b. 1890)
Her Smile please, 1979: t.p. (Jean Rhys) p. 10 (b. 1890?)
Her Good morning, midnight, 1986: t.p. (Jean Rhys) 1st prel. p. (Jean Rhys was born in 1894 in the Winward Islands of the West Indies; died in Devon in 1979)
Angier, C. Jean Rhys, 2011: pages 9, etc. (Rhys was born in 1890 in Roseau, Dominica, nine months after the dysentry epidemic of Nov. 1889; parents: William Rees Williams and Minna Lockhart Rees Williams)
Wikipedia, viewed June 7, 2013 (Jean Rhys, CBE, 24 August 1890-14 May 1979; sent to England for schooling at age 16; resided in England thereafter, with some periods spent in Paris and Vienna in the years 1920-1933; worked briefly as a chorus girl about 1909-1910, using the names Vivienne, Emma or Ella Gray; married to the French-Dutch journalist, spy and songwriter Willem Johan Marie (Jean) Lenglet, 1919-1933; married to Leslie Tilden-Smith, 1939-1945; married to Max Hamer, 1947-1966; died in Exeter)
Associated languageeng