Date: 8 July 2010
Time: 9.00 - 18.45, with wine reception 18.45 - 20.00
Venue: King's College, London

Jeannette Baxter and Tory Young, Senior Lecturers in English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, are organising a one-day international conference on the work of Jean Rhys with staff at King's College, London.

The known story of Jean Rhys is of a novelist who achieved recognition in literary circles of the 1920s and 1930s, but was then 'lost' to the public eye and assumed dead, only to be 'found' again shortly before the publication of her most famous work 'Wide Sargasso Sea' (1966). Since her death thirty years ago, Rhys's reputation and influence has grown but there has been no British conference dedicated to her work.

Speakers at the event will include: Mary Lou Emery (Iowa), Christina Britzolakis (Warwick), Helen Carr (Goldsmith's), Mary Joannou (Anglia Ruskin University), Andrew Thacker (De Montfort), Lilian Pizzichini ('The Blue Hour'), Tiffany Murray ('Diamond Star Halo') and Carole Angier ('Jean Rhys: Life and Work').

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