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44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark

Slightly Foxed

Jan 15, 202359:47Arts

The writer Jean Rhys is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea , her haunting prequel to Jane Eyre , yet her own life would have made for an equally compelling novel. Miranda Seymour, author of the definitive Jean Rhys biograp...

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