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Jean Rhys

@MsJeanRhys

Daily tweets from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, Good Morning, Midnight etc. If I could choose, I would rather be happy than write. https://teapaw.org/t.co/HjhKeP2QCI

 Dominica, London, Paris, Devon
Joined April 2015
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EDITOR’S SCREENSHOT, PROVING OUR POINT MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN MERE WORDS:
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EDITOR’S NOTE: We will continue to post extracts from Jean Rhys’s work here and are even willing to pay a dollar to do so. But we would urge readers to follow us at msjeanrhys.bsky.social in case we throw up our hands in despair and stop. Thank you for listening.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: In order to keep this account going, over the next few days we will be unfollowing everyone. It is no longer tenable to open this feed every morning and be confronted with a vista of hate speech, indignant fury, porn bots and general idiocy. >
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They can tell lies - and vulgar, trivial lies - and when there are so many all saying the same thing they can shout you down and make you doubt, not only your memory, but your senses. 2/2
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Now I am almost as wary of books as I am of people. They are also capable of hurting you, pushing you into the limbo of the forgotten. 1/2
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Away from the smoking ruins, we have set up camp here: msjeanrhys.bsky.social. This time we shan’t be following anyone back.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: If you want to lose your mind, simply open a quote account and follow a cross-section of X users whose only shared characteristic is an interest in the work of Jean Rhys, then scroll through your timeline for a few minutes.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Mindful of the potential demise of this website, we have opened a new account at msjeanrhys.bsky.social. You may wish to follow us there.
Jean Rhys (@MsJeanRhys) profile pictureJean Rhys@MsJeanRhys28 Nov 2022
I have never thought about my readers. They're sheep. Sweet. I appreciate them. But they're sheep, they follow after.
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🦊🎧📚 #FoxedPod Ep 44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark Jean Rhys is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, yet her own life would have made for an equally compelling novel. Biographer @mirandajseymour joins us to shine light on her life & writing foxedquarterly.com/jean-rhys… @MsJeanRhys
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Thank you everyone for your support for @MsJeanRhys in 2022 and Happy New Year to you all.
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Jean Rhys, Quartet.
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It seems Fake News can even extend to brilliant literature. Thank you to the owner of the account @MsJeanRhys for investigating, and finding that this brilliant quote is actually from South African journalist and author Hazel Rochman goodreads.com/quotes/22123-r…
Royal Society of Literature (@RSLiterature) profile pictureRoyal Society of Literature@RSLiterature20 Mar 2020
'Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.' -- Jean Rhys #WorldStorytellingDay
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EDITOR'S NOTE: There are bigger things to worry about but as you are the Royal Society of Literature, Jean Rhys never said or wrote this. teapaw.org/msjeanrhys/status/1033…
Jean Rhys (@MsJeanRhys) profile pictureJean Rhys@MsJeanRhys25 Aug 2018
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EDITOR'S NOTE: In summary, this oft-seen quote is NOT by Jean Rhys but by Hazel Rochman. I have deleted it from this account.
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Shirley’s ‘Sad Cafe’ inspired by the novels of Jean Rhys and just one of the drawings and sketchings to be discovered in A Life Drawing.
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I talk w/@johnkellytweets about a favourite book, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, on the final ep of The Reading List! #readwomen @MsJeanRhys teapaw.org/johnkellytweets/status…
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I have no imagination.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Rare clip of Ms Rhys in conversation. "I think if I had to choose I'd rather be happy than write..." youtube.com/watch?v=UN_6xJJN…
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Voice of the writer Jean Rhys.

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Don't miss the final days of Wide Sargasso Sea: Jean Rhys, Jane Eyre and the Making of an Author in our #BLTreasures Gallery. Ends 8 Jan.
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Some people do dislike my work intensely you know.
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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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