A student-friendly guide to the life, work, context and reception of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpreta

"Prescient and technically astonishing." --Geoff Dyer, GQ

Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and postcolonial writing. Elaine Savory's study, first published in 1999,