Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

: /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.