WSS Context. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys - answer Born in 1890, in Dominica, one of the Windward Islands in the
Caribbean
Jean Rhys's parentage - answer The white daughter of a Welsh doctor and a Creole
mother.
Move to England - answer At 16 Jean Rhys left her home in Dominica and moved to
England
what was Rhys's relationship to her Welsh and Creole backgrounds? - answer A feeling
of displacement , not belonging, anger and confusion
rootlessness
End of colonial heyday - answer Rhys witnessed the waning of an aristocratic and
exploitative Creole culture
1920's - answer Rhys traveled in Europe is a bohemian artist
definition of Bohemian - answer socially unconventional in an artistic way
Paris - answer became familiar with innovative works of modern artists and writers
on the outskirts of conventional society
marginalized
View of male-dominated urban environment? - answer began to question its codes and
traditions
What were her experiences as a single woman in a patriarchal culture? - answer
Psychological and physical toll
plagued by poverty, illness and alcoholism
How did her experiences inform her writing? - answer she explores themes of being a
single woman in a patriarchal society such as poverty and illness
WSS Historical context - answer set in the aftermath following the Slavery Abolition Act
1834 in Britain and the British colonies
Jean Rhys - answer Born in 1890, in Dominica, one of the Windward Islands in the
Caribbean
Jean Rhys's parentage - answer The white daughter of a Welsh doctor and a Creole
mother.
Move to England - answer At 16 Jean Rhys left her home in Dominica and moved to
England
what was Rhys's relationship to her Welsh and Creole backgrounds? - answer A feeling
of displacement , not belonging, anger and confusion
rootlessness
End of colonial heyday - answer Rhys witnessed the waning of an aristocratic and
exploitative Creole culture
1920's - answer Rhys traveled in Europe is a bohemian artist
definition of Bohemian - answer socially unconventional in an artistic way
Paris - answer became familiar with innovative works of modern artists and writers
on the outskirts of conventional society
marginalized
View of male-dominated urban environment? - answer began to question its codes and
traditions
What were her experiences as a single woman in a patriarchal culture? - answer
Psychological and physical toll
plagued by poverty, illness and alcoholism
How did her experiences inform her writing? - answer she explores themes of being a
single woman in a patriarchal society such as poverty and illness
WSS Historical context - answer set in the aftermath following the Slavery Abolition Act
1834 in Britain and the British colonies
