WRITER

Jean Rhys

1890 - 1979

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Jean Rhys, ( REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she mainly resided in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Rhys has received more than 888,007 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Jean Rhys is the 2,650th most popular writer (up from 2,840th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Dominica and the most popular Dominican Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Voyage in the dark
1934
Sleep it off lady
Fiction
1976
After leaving Mr Mackenzie
English fiction
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love. For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr. Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day visit contains some of Jean Rhys's most sensitive, poignant writing. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love.
19694 / 5
Quatuor
1973

Page views of Jean Rhys by language

Over the past year Jean Rhys has had the most page views in the with 105,038 views, followed by French (7,294), and Spanish (6,546). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (296.52%), Egyptian Arabic (87.00%), and Czech (81.76%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Rhys ranks 2,650 out of 7,302. Before her are Jules Supervielle, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Jules Guesde, Olga Rozanova, Tom Sharpe, and John Cheever. After her are Alda Merini, Àngel Guimerà, Mirra Alfassa, Stanko Vraz, Polemon I of Pontus, and William Goldman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jean Rhys ranks 108. Before her are Emilio Portes Gil, Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence Brown, Adolf Wagner, Harold Bride, and Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia. After her are Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Adolphe Menjou, Jüri Uluots, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Mauno Pekkala, and Vasili Eroshenko. Among people deceased in 1979, Jean Rhys ranks 101. Before her are Joseph Alcazar, Léonide Massine, David Butler, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Agop Dilâçar, and Wilfred Bion. After her are Helmut Hasse, August Heissmeyer, Marcel L'Herbier, James J. Gibson, Dolores Costello, and Leonid Bykov.

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In Dominica

Among people born in Dominica, Jean Rhys ranks 2 out of 11. Before her are Charles Savarin (1943). After her are Kelvin Felix (1933), Nicholas Liverpool (1934), Eugenia Charles (1919), Henry Wilcoxon (1905), Roosevelt Skerrit (1972), Patricia Scotland (1955), Eliud Williams (1948), Patrick John (1938), and Sylvanie Burton (1964).

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Among WRITERS In Dominica

Among writers born in Dominica, Jean Rhys ranks 1. 

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