Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1
Life
Gwen Williams 1890–1907
Gwen Williams and Ella Gray 1907–1919
Jean Rhys and Ella Lenglet 1919–1927
Jean Rhys 1928–1945
Jean Rhys and Ella Hamer 1946–1966
Jean Rhys 1966–1979
Chapter 2
Contexts
Cultural identities
Modernisms
Literary migrations
Pioneer women artists outside polite society: Rhys, Colette and Edith Piaf
The woman writer
The colonial postcolonial
Published and unpublished: Rhys’s notebooks and manuscripts
Making the “truth”
Chapter 3
Texts
The Left Bank
(1927)
Quartet
(1929)
After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie
(1931)
Voyage in the Dark
(1934)
Good Morning, Midnight
(1939)
Wide Sargasso Sea
(1966)
Tigers Are Better-Looking
(1968)
Sleep It Off Lady
(1976)
The Collected Short Stories
(1987)
Smile Please
(1979)
Chapter 4
Reception
1927–1965
1966 and after
Notes
Select further reading
Index