I claimed that this was no challenge at all, so I'll back that up:
30 day books-by-women challenge! 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #30DaysBooksByWomen #jeanrhys #modernism

Day 6: To the North - Elizabeth Bowen (read several times)

I claimed that this was no challenge at all, so I'll back that up:
30 day books-by-women challenge! 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #30DaysBooksByWomen #jeanrhys #modernism

Day 5: Odd Girl Out - Elizabeth Jane Howard (read in 2024)

I claimed that this was no challenge at all, so I'll back that up:
30 day books-by-women challenge! 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #30DaysBooksByWomen #jeanrhys #modernism

Day 4: Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys (read in 2022)

The life and times of Antoinette Cosway (aka Mrs Rochester), when she lived in Jamaica before fetching up at Thornfield Hall (doffs cap to Jean Rhys). #MissingChaptersInLiterature #JeanRhys

How interwar fiction made sense of an increasingly noisy world Noise first became a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the ‘age of noise’ by dystopian author Aldous Huxley.

How interwar fiction made sense of an increasingly noisy world theconversation.com/how-interwar... #AldousHuxley #GeorgeOrwell #HGWells #VirginaWoolf #JeanRhys #Huxley #Orwell #Woolf #Booksky

What is extra in the ordinary, and why is the intimate often strange? - Edinburgh University Press Blog Eret Talviste explores Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys through scenes of solitude and ordinary freedom.

On the blog!

@erettalviste.bsky.social explores #VirginiaWoolf and #JeanRhys through scenes of solitude and ordinary freedom.

Delve into the post:

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds home for us everywhere.” ― Jean Rhys

#QuoteOfTheDay: #JeanRhys

Drawing of a woman, seated, in charcoal

A rather loose charcoal drawing after The Coral Necklace by Harold Gilman. I imagine her rather as a character from a Jean Rhys novel, large drink just out of shot.

#drawing #jeanrhys

Jean Rhys - De wijde Sargassozee

'Wij laten ons het leven zuur maken door spoken, waarom zouden we niet gelukkig zijn?'

@ingridmeurs.bsky.social #JeanRhys
#uitgelezen
www.uitgeverijorlando.nl/jean-rhys-de...

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World - Curated by Hilton Als - Exhibitions - Michael Werner Gallery, New York, London, Beverly Hills Since 1963, Michael Werner Gallery has worked with some of the most important European and American artists of the 20th Century.

Huge thanks to @joiedevivre9.bsky.social for alerting me to this exhibition. #JeanRhys #BookSky 💙📚 #London

It runs until the end of November and is free to attend. More details here:

www.michaelwerner.com/exhibitions/...

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World review – sex, squalor and jungle sweat for an eternal outsider Artists as varied as Sarah Lucas, Gwen John and Georg Baselitz are called upon by critic-curator Hilton Als to chime with the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea

Postures: #JeanRhys in the Modern World #Art #Review

#MichaelWernerGallery, #London

Artists as varied as #SarahLucas, #GwenJohn and #GeorgBaselitz are called upon by critic-curator #HiltonAls to chime with the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Photo of three Penguin paperback book covers, 1969/70, of novels by Jean Rhys, with black and white line illustrations by Faith Jacques. Two covers also have background sketches (in either pink - a Paris scene - or green - an interior with a dressing table.).

Jean Rhys #BOTD 1890

Penguin paperbacks, 1969 and 1970, with cover illustrations by Faith Jacques, of novels originally published in (L to R) 1934, 1939 and 1930.

📚 #JeanRhys #FaithJacques #PenguinPaperbacks

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys Back in December, when I put together my reading list for the Classics Club, one of the first books I selected was Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark (first published in 1934). Rhys’ second novel, After…

From the archive for the inimitable Jean Rhys, #BornOnThisDay in 1890, my thoughts on her novel VOYAGE IN THE DARK.

Brilliant, painful and devastating - a novel way ahead of its time. #BOTD #JeanRhys #BookSky 💙📚

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/v...

La Prisonnière des Sargasses — Wikipédia

#JaneEyre Un retournement littéraire fabuleux donne la parole à "l'autre femme,"... Très chaudement recommandé. #JeanRhys
Attention, spoilers dans l'article @wikipediafr.bsky.social

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

- Jean Rhys, Good morning, midnight
died on this day, 1979

#BookSky
#JeanRhys

" #Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."

✒ Novelist #JeanRhys passed away #OTD 14 May 1979. #Literature #Writing

No 7 in my Literary Impressions Series
The Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
#impressionism #classicliterature #acrylicpainting #impressionistart
#acryliconcanvas #jeanrhys
#widesargassosea #englishclassic #englishliterature #britishart
#Jamaica #AbolitionOfSlavery
Acrylic on Canvas
80 cms x 60cms

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 98: #WideSargassoSea by #JeanRhys

Can you remember #MrRochester from #JaneEyre?

Well, here’s the #story of his first #marriage: one of confinement, #disempowerment, and prevarication.

A #novel of great importance that deserves to be read today more than ever.

Short Friday Classics: Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys Michael LaPointe, Vivian Gornick and Miranda Seymour discuss Jean Rhys's 1934 novel, Voyage in the Dark.

Vivian Gornick & Miranda Seymour talking about Jean Rhys' book Voyage in the Dark, what could be better?! Hosted by Michael LaPointe. Online event: Fri Apr 11, 12-1pm ET. Free registration here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/1293219838...
#booksky #viviangornick #jeanrhys #mirandaseymour

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. - #JeanRhys #booknerd #booktok #bookstagram

Pale woman with eyes closed, long dark hair surrounded by leaves on the cover of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

My daughter loved Jane Eyre and read Wide Sargasso Sea by #JeanRhys in a college class. She was so taken with it she bought me a copy. Well, I also loved Jane Eyre so I jumped in. This is such a sensuous and tense read. It’s gorgeous and troubling and so so good.

#TheWriteWomen #BookSky

#WideSargassoSea How did you elude me for so long? #JeanRhys #feminist #anti-colonialist #Classism #racism

The Penguin Modern Classics cover of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. Other than the white text communicating those facts, the cover is of a bunch of 5 plantains sitting on a woven textile surface. Daylight dapples and throws stripes of shadow over the fruit. The main colour palette is green, white, and faded yellow.

8/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #JeanRhys #WideSargassoSea #JaneEyre #Adaptation #Prequel #PostcolonialLit #FeministLit

It is very wide though. Bigly wide. #jeanrhys

Early Jean Rhys...

One of my favourite writers. Who can imagine a better life than being an impoverished, neurodiverse ex-chorus girl in the 1920’s/30’s attempting to slowly drink yourself to death?

#jeanrhys #books #authors #neurodiversity #alcohol

Tableau “Dans un café (L’absinthe)” d'Edgar Degas (1873). Cette scène se déroule au café de la Nouvelle Athènes, place Pigalle, point de ralliement des Impressionnistes. Il représente Ellen Andrée, actrice, le regard vague face à un verre d’absinthe, et Marcellin Desboutin, peintre et graveur.

Prochain combat en faveur de l'égalité des sexes : rendre glamour l'écrivaine alcoolique. #ElizabethBishop #AnneSexton #MayaAngelou #LuciaBerlin #CarsonMcCullers #ShirleyJackson #JaneBowles #JeanRhys #PatriciaHighsmith #MargueriteDuras #MaryKarr #LeslieJamison

The cover to the book Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, picturing unripe bananas on a carpet under slatted light.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
2/20

#BookSky
#JeanRhys #WideSargassoSea
#BooksThatStayWithYou

Just finished reading Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight - a true journey of and into the soul. A novel (if one call it that) of what it is to be human. Very moved.

#fiction
#JeanRhys