Jean rhys novel5/8/2023 In 1924, in the midst of a tumultuous marriage, Williams made the acquaintance of the acclaimed English novelist Ford Madox Ford. After having a near-fatal abortion paid for by a former lover, Williams began to write. She then lived in Britain for nearly a decade, surviving on small acting roles and chorus parts. Williams was ostracized for her Caribbean heritage and accent-she was eventually taken out of school because her instructors deemed her unable to rid herself of the West Indies accent that would prevent her from gaining significant stage roles. At sixteen she was sent to England, where she studied to be an actress. Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams was born in 1890 to a Welsh doctor and a Creole woman of Scots ancestry on the Caribbean island of Dominica (then a British colony).
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