She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

: /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.