Jean Rhys
Rhys was a Caribbean-born British writer whose novels of female displacement and male cruelty are among the most distinctive of the modernist period. Wide Sargasso Sea, her reimagining of Jane Eyre from Bertha Mason's perspective, is a landmark of postcolonial literature.
Works
- Wide Sargasso SeaPrequel to Jane Eyre retelling Rochester's mad wife's backstory in Jamaica
- Good Morning, MidnightNovel following an impoverished woman's descent through European cities and despair
- Voyage in the DarkNovel of a young woman from the Caribbean navigating London life and sexual exploitation
- After Leaving Mr MackenzieNovel about a woman's struggle for survival after abandonment by her lover in London
- QuartetEarly novel depicting a woman caught in a complicated love triangle in Paris
- Good Morning MidnightNovel of a woman wandering European cities, trapped by poverty and self-delusion
- After Leaving Mr. MackenzieNovel exploring vulnerability as an impoverished woman endures abandonment and rejection
- Tigers Are Better-LookingCollection of interconnected stories set in tropical colonies featuring moral ambiguity
- Tigers Are Better LookingCollection of short stories about exiles and outsiders in colonial and European settings