Credits

Many of the letters quoted from in this book are in private collections, as indicated within the notes. Dr Ellen Moerman, Rhys’s granddaughter, also retains a collection pertaining to her grandmother, including books which Rhys still owned at her death. A full list of extracts used with permission of Dr Moerman is below:

Extracts from Good Morning Midnight reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1939 (Jean Rhys)

Extracts from Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1979 (Jean Rhys)

Extracts from Collected Short Stories reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1987 (Jean Rhys)

Extracts from Jean Rhys: Collected Letters reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1995 (Jean Rhys)

Extract from “Mixing Cocktails,” “Vienne,” “La Grosse Fifi” and “In the Rue de l’Arrivée” reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1927 (Jean Rhys)

Extracts from “A Solid House,” “Outside the Machine” and “The Sound of the River” reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1968 (Jean Rhys)

Extracts from “Temps Perdi” and “I Spy a Stranger” reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1969 (Jean Rhys)

Extracts from “Goodbye Marcus, Goodbye Rose,” “The Insect World” and “Overture and Beginners” reprinted by permission of Dr Ellen Moerman © 1976 (Jean Rhys)

I am particularly indebted to the published selection made by Diana Melly and Francis Wyndham (eds), in The Letters of Jean Rhys, 1931–1966 (André Deutsch, 1984).