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Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century
- Michele Roberts,
Rhys's iconic prequel to Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> is rich in motifs and devices both modernist and postmodernist
- Hephzibah Anderson,
Beautiful and subversive [...] the novel didn't just take inspiration from Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i>, it illuminated and confronted it, challenged the narrative.
- Danielle McLaughlin, Paris Review
<i>Wide Sargasso Sea</i> is not just a great novel, it is many brilliant books in one
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