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An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction – above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea – that has a passionate following today.
And yet her own colourful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing.
Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil – and yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim.
The figure who emerges for Seymour is powerful, cultured, self-mocking, and indestructible – unpredictable, and endlessly fascinating.
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Miranda Seymour, celebrated both as a novelist and a biographer, has been a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
She is the author of five acclaimed biographies: A Ring Of Conspirators, an innovative study of Henry James and his literary circle; Ottoline Morrell: Life On A Grand Scale; Robert Graves: Life On The Edge; Mary Shelley; and The Bugatti Queen.
Miranda is also the author of several successful historical novels, including, most recently, The Telling.
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