Rhys was born inside Dominica (a at one time British island in the Caribbean) to a Welsh father and Creole mother. She moved to England at the age of xvi, in which she worked unsuccessfully as a chorine. In the Twenties, she relocated to Europe, traveling as a Bohemian artist and ingesting higher home periodically inside Paris. inside the cycle of this period, Rhys lived in touching poorness, when familiarizing herself using modern art and literature, and getting a alcoholism that would persist through the rest of her life. Her case of the patriarchal society and feelings of displacement when you took this cycle would form a bit of of the first themes within her function.

Rhys's writing typically centers on a experiences of women transplanted from either their roots & left to die at the whims of unfamiliar societies—an visible echo of her have life. Her style is typically noted for its distinctive blend of modernist techniques and West Indian sensibilities. Her act was published & promoted by Ford Madox Ford, among others.

Selected bibliography
The Left Bank and Other Stories, 1927
Postures, 1928 (released when Quartet in 1929)
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, 1931
Voyage in the Dark, 1934
Good Morning, Midnight, 1939
Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
Tigers Are Better-Looking (with the Choice from either A Left Bank), 1968
Penguin Modern Stories 1, 1969 (with others)
My Day: Three Pieces, 1975
Sleep It Off Lady, 1976
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography, 1979
Jean Rhys Letters 1931-1966, 1984
Early Novels, 1984
The Complete Novels, 1985
Tales of the Wide Caribbean, 1985
The Collected Short Stories, 1987