Jean Rhys Quotes
I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.
Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable & Co., 1939, p. 9.
The artist, Francis B. Carpenter, visited Lincoln at the White House and saw some of the hateful and threatening letters the president had received. He asked the President how he dealt with them. Today, such mail is filtered by staff and turned over to the Secret Service for possible investigation.
Jean Rhys, CBE (/riːs/; born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she was mainly resident in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. In 1978, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writing.