Jean Rhys
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Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is be
Rhys (left) with Mollie Stoner (right), 1970s
The blue plaque at her Chelsea flat in 2015
Ford Madox Ford
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Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and Amer
Jean Rhys
…Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Rhys started writing intermittently around 1914, and found a literary mentor in Ford Madox Ford (with whom she also had an affair) in 1923. With his assistance and encouragement, her first work of fiction—The Left Bank and Other Stories—was published…
c. 1905 photo
Blue plaque, 80 Campden Hill Road, Kensington, London
Cover of The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court (1906) by Ford Madox Ford, then known as Ford Madox Hueffer