Jean Rhys refused categorisation. Born in the late 1800s to a Welsh father and third-generation Creole mother in Dominica, Rhys was a white child in a primarily Black society. While she came to Europe in her teens, variously moving between France, the UK and the Netherlands, her writing retained a rich understanding of the place and culture of her birth. Her stories are full of complicated women, exploring the experience of exilehellip;

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