When I saw him looking up like that I knew that I loved him, and that it was for always. It was as if my heart turned over, and I knew that it was for always. It's a strange feeling - when you know quite certainly in yourself that something is for always. It's like what death must be.

: /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.