Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

: /riːs/) CBE (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams was a mid 20th-century novelist from Dominica. She lived with him from 1920; they wandered through Europe living mainly in London Paris and Vienna.

Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain Jean Rhys is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. : /riːs/) CBE (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams was a mid 20th-century novelist from Dominica.