Jean Rhys: Tossed about on an uneasy sea. Pizzichini displays great compassion for Rhys, who disappeared into slothful, small-town existence after the soggy reception of “Good Morning, Midnight ...

“The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys”By Lilian PizzichiniNorton, 322 pages, $29.95In her four exquisite between-the-wars novellas, set among the half-shadowed demimonde of Paris and London ...

F orty years after her death, Jean Rhys is regarded as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Time magazine included Wide Sargasso Sea in its “100 best English-language novels since 1923 ...

Phillips' decision to focus on the three decades between 1906 and 1936 — well short of Rhys' 1979 death — makes good sense. More questionable is his choice, in this consummately literary novel ...

In the 1950s and ’60s, many years after her minor success as a fiction writer had subsided, Jean Rhys joked about the reports in various quarters that she was dead. Nevertheless, for the smal… ...

I n June 1931, in a letter to her friend and fellow writer Evelyn Scott, Jean Rhys spelled out a recurring, and apparently insoluble, problem that she had with publishers: “I am always being told that ...

Eventually Rhys and Lenglet split up, and she married again and moved to England. Some of her best stories are about women in England during World War II, but at the time her bleak view of their ...

Since Jean Rhys’s death 42 years ago, our obsession with her life and work – mostly in that order – has only grown. The legend of Rhys, author of five novels, 50 stories and a memoir, has ...

With little primary material of Jean Rhys' life to be had, the temptation to take liberties is paramount. In "The Blue Hour," readers must take a leap of faith that Lillian Pizzichini has given us ...

The author of 'You Should Have Known' and 'The Sequel' on Jean Rhys, 'Pride and Prejudice', and the book that has the best title.

On 25 February 1936, Jean Rhys boarded a French ship called the Cuba at Southampton dock. The ship was bound for Dominica, her childhood home, which she had left twenty-nine years previously.