Elaine Savory

Ella Williams (later JR ) was born in Roseau, the capital of the island of Dominica, in the West Indies.

Elaine Savory firmly and specifically claims JR as a Caribbean writer because of her cosmopolitanism and her desire for home and belonging. She notes that Rhys's writing, like Caribbean culture, shows complexity, contrariness, refusal of...

Initial reviewers, for example Marina Warner , pointed out that the book was not a formal autobiography, but rather afforded glimpses of the real world of JR 's fictional heroines. Warner concurs with Rhys's opinion...