Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
Appearance
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography is a posthumously published, unfinished
Andre Deutsch Ltd (London) and Harper & Rowe (New York City).[1] The book was edited by and contained an introduction by Rhys's editor, Diana Athill
.
The first part of the book consists of the account of her childhood in Dominica. The second part of the book consists of drafts about her adult life, ending in 1923.[2] A photographic section divides the two parts.
References
Further reading
- Angier, Carol, Jean Rhys. Life and Work, Little, Brown and Co., 1990
- Pizzichini, Lilian The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
External links
- Floriane Reviron-Piégay, Jean Rhys’s Smile Please: Re/De constructing identity through autobiography and photography OpenEdition