Afternoon Tea With Miranda and Jean

Miranda Seymour in conversation about Jean Rhys

An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the twentieth century. Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England. Rhys’s experiences of heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment all became grist for her writing, forming an iconic ‘Rhys woman’ whose personality – vulnerable, witty, watchful and angry – was often mistaken, and still is, for a self-portrait.

Miranda Seymour is a Nottingham writer, and the author of a number of biographies including I Used To Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Tea and cake will be served at 4.30, and we’ll start when everyone is settled!

Please let us know if you have any allergies or have special requests eg gluten free or vegan