RHYS, Jean.

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Voyage in the Dark. First Andre Deutsch edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow writer Olivia Manning: "For Olivia Manning, with admiration and best wishes - from Jean Rhys, March 1971".The novel was first published in 1934 before Rhys slipped into obscurity and poverty. In 1949 the actress Selma Vaz Dias placed an advertisement in the papers enquiring for Rhys's whereabouts and seeking her permission to adapt another of her novels, Good Morning, Midnight (1939), into a BBC programme. This contact, and further efforts by Vaz Dias and others in the publishing field, led to Rhys's re-emergence into the literary community, the republication of her books, which had fallen out of print, and the eventual publication of her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).

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