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Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Rhys, Jean.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Alexis Lykiard - Jean Rhys archive, 1969-1976

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-052
Scope and Contents

Letters from Jean Rhys to Alexis Lykiard; photographs and snapshots featuring Jean Rhys to be used for proposed photo-illustrations for Lykiard's book, Jean Rhys Revisited; 3 audio cassette recording of ; and 2 video tapes (content unknown).

Dates: 1969 - 1976

Jean Rhys archive

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-011
Scope and Contents Manuscripts relating to colonial writer and author of Wide Sargasso Sea: drafts of stories, letters to, from and about her; sound recordings; reviews of her books; interviews with and articles about her.Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had two intensely creative periods in her career as novelist and story writer; the first from about 1920 to 1935 and the second from about 1950 until her death in 1979. Apart from her published work, few records of the earlier period are known to survive....
Dates: 1920 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1979