Miranda Seymour discusses her new biography of Jean Rhys (the author of Wide Sargasso Sea), with readings by Diana Quick.
After a huge early success, Jean Rhy (author of Wide Sargasso Sea) vanished from view for quarter of a century. She was rediscovered in the 70s becoming world famous in her eighties and taken to the heart of ‘cool’ London with drugs, sex and rock and roll going on all around her. She died in 1979 but has again become a cult figure as the strongly themed subjects of her novels speak to our times.
Miranda Seymour’s new biography, I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys (2022), is the first to research the crucial seventeen years that Rhys spent living on the remote Caribbean island of Dominica; the island which haunted Rhys’s mind and her work for the rest of her life.
This Weinrebe Lecture will feature readings by noted actress Diana Quick from I Used to Live Here Once as well as from Jean Rhys’s work.

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