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- ↑ Rhys, Jean (1927). The left bank: and other stories. New York; London: Harper & Brothers. OCLC 1132905154.
- ↑ Midori Saito, The Lost Motherland? Image of the Caribbean in the Early Works of Jean Rhys: Left Bank and Voyage in the Dark, The University of the West Indies, 2004.
- ↑ Angier, Carole, 1943- (February 2011). Jean Rhys: life and work. London. ISBN 978-0-571-27641-7. OCLC 727028081.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Savory, Elaine. (2009). The Cambridge introduction to Jean Rhys. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-71960-8. OCLC 611066786.
- ↑ Pizzichini, Lilian, 1965- (2009). The blue hour: a life of Jean Rhys (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-05803-1. OCLC 283802817.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Power, Chris (2014-04-14). "A brief survey of the short story: Jean Rhys". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ↑ "How Jean Rhys became a writer » Wide Sargasso Sea Study Guide from Crossref-it.info". crossref-it.info. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ↑ "Miss Rhys's Short Stories; The Left Bank, and Other Stories. By Jean Rhys. With a Preface by Ford Madox Ford. 256 pp. New York: Harper & Bros. $2. Latest Works Of Fiction". The New York Times. 1927-12-11. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ↑ Rhys, Jean (1968). Tigers are better-looking. Deutsch. OCLC 656160665.
- ↑ Rhys, Jean (1976). Jean Rhys; the collected short stories. Norton. OCLC 17966455.
- ↑ "From rum to gay - British literature". TLS. Retrieved 2020-04-23.