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Jean Rhys

1890 - 1979

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Jean Rhys, ( REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. In 1978, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writing. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Rhys is the 3,067th most popular writer (down from 2,650th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Dominica (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Dominican Writer.

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Among writers, Jean Rhys ranks 3,067 out of 7,302. Before her are Maksim Bahdanovič, Şihabetdin Märcani, Walter Pater, Simon of Kéza, Vizma Belševica, and René Daumal. After her are Karel Havlíček Borovský, Miodrag Bulatović, Aleksey Pisemsky, Stephenie Meyer, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Venedikt Yerofeyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jean Rhys ranks 133. Before her are Gösta Ekman, Adolphe Menjou, Dion Fortune, André Gobert, Sigurd Hoel, and Alexander Granach. After her are Walter Hasenclever, Olga Desmond, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Ahmad Kasravi, E. E. Smith, and Oswald de Andrade. Among people deceased in 1979, Jean Rhys ranks 119. Before her are Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, James J. Gibson, Georges Florovsky, Jack Haley, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Issa Pliyev. After her are David Butler, Barbara Hutton, Rebecca Clarke, Walter Legge, Minnie Riperton, and Lothar Wolleh.

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In Dominica

Among people born in Dominica, Jean Rhys ranks 3 out of 11. Before her are Charles Savarin (1943), and Nicholas Liverpool (1934). After her are Kelvin Felix (1933), Patricia Scotland (1955), Eugenia Charles (1919), Sylvanie Burton (1964), Henry Wilcoxon (1905), Roosevelt Skerrit (1972), Eliud Williams (1948), Patrick John (1938), and Thea LaFond (1994).

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Among writers born in Dominica, Jean Rhys ranks 1. 

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