id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-793 Jean Rhys - Wikipedia .html text/html 3129 356 74 Jean Rhys, CBE (/riːs/;[3] born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979), was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. Diana Athill of André Deutsch gambled on publishing Wide Sargasso Sea. She and the writer Francis Wyndham helped to revive interest in Rhys's work.[10] There have been film, operatic and radio adaptations of the book.[11][12][13] Rhys's collected papers and ephemera are housed in the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library.[25] The British Library acquired a selection of Jean Rhys Papers in 1972, including drafts of short stories, novels; After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Voyage in the Dark, and Wide Sargasso Sea, and an unpublished play entitled English Harbour.[26] Research material relating to Jean Rhys can also be found in the Archive of Margaret Ramsey Ltd at the British Library relating to stage and film rights for adaptations to her work.[27] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-793.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-793.txt