Rhys, Jean (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams)
Rhys, Jean (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) ( 1890 – 1979 ),novelist, born in Dominica, the daughter of a Welsh doctor; she came to England in 1907 . She briefly attended the Perse School, Cambridge, and the Academy of Dramatic Art, then worked as chorus girl and film extra, and, during the First World War, as volunteer cook. In 1919 she left England to marry the first of three husbands, Jean Lenglet , and remained abroad for many years, living mainly in Paris, where she began to write and where much of her early work is set. The Left Bank: Sketches and Studies of Present-Day Bohemian Paris appeared in 1927 with an introduction by F. M. Ford , followed by Postures ( 1928 , reprinted 1969 as Quartet) and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie ( 1930 ). Voyage in the Dark ( 1934 ) is a first-person account of 19-year-old Anna Morgan's experiences as a chorus girl in London and on tour, and Good...
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