Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

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First UK edition

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

  1. OCLC 251693527
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  2. ^ Athill, Diana: Jean Rhys and her autobiography: A Foreword by Diana Athill. Published in Jean Rhys:Smile Please (1979)

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

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