After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
Rhys, Jean![After Leaving Mr Mackenzie](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/900/9007454/CHSBZCOP039007454.jpg)
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumsta...