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The Blue Hour: A Portrait Of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini Bloomsbury e21.90*****
In 1949 a small ad appeared in the New Statesman magazine asking for information about a minor pre-war novelist called Jean Rhys, now presumed dead. The advertiser was a BBC scriptwriter seeking permission from Rhys, or her heirs, to broadcast an adaptation of one of her early novels. Back came an astonished answer from Jean Rhys herself: far from being dead, she was alive and living in deepest suburban south London.See the full content of this document
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From Violent Drunk to Literary Heroine [Eire Region]
This didn't mean, however, that the 60-yearold was flourishing. A confirmed alcoholic caught up in a violent third marriage, Rhys - real name Mrs Ella Hamer - was now most famo...
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