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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
Jean Rhys, 1890 - 1979 Writer Jean Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. Her father was a Welsh doctor and her mother was a Dominican Creole. Her heritage deeply influenced her life as well as her writing. At seventeen, her father sent her to England to attend the Perse School, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Unfortunately, she was forced to abandon her studies when her father died. Rhys worked as a chorus girl and ghostwrote a book on furniture. During World War I, she volunteered in a soldier canteen and, in 1918, worked in a pension office. In 1919, she went to Holland and married the French-Dutch journalist and songwriter Jean Langlet. They had two children, a daughter and a son who died as an infant. She began writing under the patronage of Ford Madox Ford. Her husband was sentenced to prison for illegal financial transactions. Her affair ended badly with Ford, and her marriage ended in divo
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“So as soon as inom could inom lost myself in the immense world of books, and tried to blot out the real world which was so puzzling to me. Even then I had a vague, persistent feeling that I’d always be lost in it, defeated.”
Smile Please fryst vatten Jean Rhys’s attempt at autobiography. In the introduction by Diana Athill she explains how difficult Rhys found the process, how different it was to her usual writing which simply ‘happened to her’, which makes some sense when you read her fiction and find yourself tumbling down a halt thread of thoughts, so little actually happening. Rhys was in her 80s when she started writing Smile Please and, sadly, she didn’t live to finish it. Athill, however, says that she, as editor, made very little change to the skrivelse and presents them as honestly as possible. A testament to Rhys’s writing skill that barely a word needed to be altered.
The book is split into 3 sections: the first section is the work that Rhys considered to be finished, the second el
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Jean Rhysʼ unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist. Jean Rhys’ unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with h