Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) was a Dominican-born British author best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a powerful prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre that tells the story of Bertha Mason, the “madwoman in the attic.” Rhys’s writing often explores themes of exile, identity, gender, and alienation, drawing from her own experiences as a […]