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A voyage in the dark5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The voice of Sacha rings out in a BBC radio play of Good Morning, Midnight many years after its publication, bringing Rhys into the spotlight. The women in her novels feel it too: Anna adrift in London in Voyage in the Dark, Julia leaving Paris in After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Antoinette bound for Mr Rochester’s attic in Wide Sargasso Sea. This feeling lingers, whether she is living in squalid London, on Paris’s Left Bank or in rural Devon. We begin in the Caribbean with Smile Please, Rhys’s unfinished autobiography of her early years, where we meet a white creole girl who feels like an outsider. ![]() But her most important role was that of a writer. And she did play many roles over the years: raconteur, recluse, wife (three times), grieving mother, enthusiastic drinker. Born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams on the island of Dominica, she dreamed of being an actress. Miranda Seymour, author of the definitive Jean Rhys biography I Used to Live Here Once, joins the Slightly Foxed team to follow Rhys’s often rackety life and shine light on her writing. ![]()
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