Miranda Seymour on Jean Rhys: I Used To Live Here Once in Bath

Miranda Seymour is the celebrated biographer, novelist, and author of the award-winning memoir In My Father’s House. Her many acclaimed biographies include: A Ring of Conspirators, an innovative study of Henry James; Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale; Robert Graves: Life on the Edge; Mary Shelley; and In Byron’s Wake.

Miranda Seymour is the celebrated biographer, novelist, and author of the award-winning memoir In My Father’s House. Her many acclaimed biographies include: A Ring of Conspirators, an innovative study of Henry James; Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale; Robert Graves: Life on the Edge; Mary Shelley; and In Byron’s Wake.

Now she comes to the bookshop to discuss her latest biography, an intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of the extraordinary writer Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

After a huge early success, Jean Rhys vanished from view for quarter of a century. She was rediscovered in the 70s becoming world famous in her eighties and taken to the heart of ‘cool’ London with drugs, sex and rock and roll going on all around her.

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