Jean Rhys (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
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Though Jean Rhys is now primarily remembered for her novels, her first published book was a collection of short stories, The Left Bank and Other Stories (1927). As Ford Madox Ford pointed out in the preface to the collection, Rhys’s heroines are geographically, psychologically, and emotionally of “the Left Bank,” not only of Paris—though Rhys captured the Paris of the 1920’s as well as anyone—but also of all of the cities of the world. They are underdogs,...
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