Narcissism and its Discontents
Mary-Kay Wilmers, 21 February 1980
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
by Jean Rhys.
Deutsch, 173 pp., £4.95, November 1980,0 233 97213 7 Show More
by Jean Rhys.
Deutsch, 173 pp., £4.95, November 1980,
Jean Rhys: A Critical Study
by Thomas Staley.
Macmillan, 140 pp., £10, November 1980,0 333 24522 9 Show More
by Thomas Staley.
Macmillan, 140 pp., £10, November 1980,
My Blue Notebooks
by Liane de Pougy, translated by Diana Athill.
Deutsch, 288 pp., £7.50, October 1980,0 233 97141 6 Show More
by Liane de Pougy, translated by Diana Athill.
Deutsch, 288 pp., £7.50, October 1980,
The Maimie Papers
edited by Ruth Rosen and Sue Davidson.
Virago, 450 pp., £9.95, September 1980,0 86068 114 9 Show More
edited by Ruth Rosen and Sue Davidson.
Virago, 450 pp., £9.95, September 1980,
Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough
by Hugo Vickers.
Weidenfeld, 299 pp., £8.95, September 1980,0 297 77652 5 Show More
by Hugo Vickers.
Weidenfeld, 299 pp., £8.95, September 1980,
“... Staying in Castries for the wedding was a young man called Mr Kennaway. When he watches me I can see that he doesn’t think I am pretty. Oh God, let me be pretty when I grow up. Jean Rhys was 12 at the time of the wedding in Castries, on the island of St Lucia. At the age of six a photograph had been taken of her: she looked very pretty then in a new white dress ... ”
