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www.youtube.com/watch drama pinter

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www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rhys.htm biography Rhys WSS

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West Indies-born writer - self-destructive and alcoholic, whose rootlessness and familiarity with the seedy side of life featured in her work.
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a doormat in a world of boots
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Wide Sargasso Sea (1966
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Rhys's fiction was more or less autobiographical
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helpless female
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an outsider
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Rhys's Creole heritage, her experiences as a white Creole woman, both in the Caribbean and in England, influenced deeply her life and writing.
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socialist Gwen
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convent school in Roseau.
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Perse School, Cambridge (1907-08)
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (1909
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volunteer worker at a soldier's canteen.
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married the French-Dutch journalist and songwriter Jean Lenglet
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a son who died in infancy and a daughter
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her husband was sentenced to prison
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he patronage of Ford Madox Ford
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first collection of stories, The Left Bank and Other Stories
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Postures (1928
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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
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mistreated, rootless women
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Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
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Rhys herself was though to be dead
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Wide Sargasso Sea. which won the W.H. Smith Award and the Heinemann Award
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The story of the conflicting cultures
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themes of personal freedom, feminism, and morality.
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interior monologue and point of view
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character perception and insight
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honorary degrees from Harvard and Oxford Universities, in 1911 and 1912
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American-born and never married
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British citizen in 1915
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15 April 1843 in New York City
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Henry James died of pneumonia on 28 February 1916
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James left America and lived for a time in Paris, France before moving to London, England in 1876
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In 1897 James retired from the hectic city of London to the quieter town
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In 1904 James travelled to America where he embarked on a cross-country lecture tour
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not happy with America's reluctance to join the war
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In 1916 he was awarded the Order of Merit by King George V.
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He was always a voracious reader and he now immersed himself in French, Russian, English, and American classic literature.
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"Novelist, Citizen of Two Countries, Interpreter of His Generation On Both Sides Of The Sea"
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