Skip to main content

Home/ Litinenglish3/ Group items tagged Rhys

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Marina Robledo

Jean Rhys - 0 views

www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rhys.htm

biography Rhys WSS

shared by Marina Robledo on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • West Indies-born writer - self-destructive and alcoholic, whose rootlessness and familiarity with the seedy side of life featured in her work.
  • a doormat in a world of boots
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (1966
  • ...21 more annotations...
  • Rhys's fiction was more or less autobiographical
  • helpless female
  • an outsider
  • Rhys's Creole heritage, her experiences as a white Creole woman, both in the Caribbean and in England, influenced deeply her life and writing.
  • socialist Gwen
  • convent school in Roseau.
  • Perse School, Cambridge (1907-08)
  • Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (1909
  • volunteer worker at a soldier's canteen.
  • married the French-Dutch journalist and songwriter Jean Lenglet
  • a son who died in infancy and a daughter
  • her husband was sentenced to prison
  • he patronage of Ford Madox Ford
  • first collection of stories, The Left Bank and Other Stories
  • Postures (1928
  • After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1931) was a story of Julia Martin, for whom poverty is a way to hide her need of love and security
  • mistreated, rootless women
  • Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
  • Rhys herself was though to be dead
  • Wide Sargasso Sea. which won the W.H. Smith Award and the Heinemann Award
  • The story of the conflicting cultures
  • Marina Robledo on 17 Sep 12
     
    The biography of the author of WSS
Julieta Francescutti

Stevie Nick's song Wide Sargasso Sea - 0 views

repeatingislands.com/...0%9Cwide-sargasso-sea%E2%80%9D

rhys; WSS

shared by Julieta Francescutti on 08 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Julieta Francescutti on 08 Sep 12
     
    Stevie Nicks, a 63-year-old singer made a song based on the novel. What do you think about it?
Isabel Trabaina

Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) Trailer - 2 views

www.youtube.com/watch

wss

shared by Isabel Trabaina on 14 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Isabel Trabaina on 14 Sep 12
     
    The original film based on the widely acclaimed Jean Rhys prequel to Jane Eyre. Stars Karina Lombard, Nathanial Parker, Claudia Robinson, Michael York and Rachel Ward
magali nardone

Wide Sargasso Sea - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

rhys

shared by magali nardone on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • magali nardone on 17 Sep 12
     
    This part of the film illustrates what we were discussing on Wednesday- The fact that Rochester wants Antoinette to weep and smile for him.
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page