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Definition von rhys im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- A male given name used in Wales since the Middle Ages, from Welsh "ardor", meaning Dragon
- A surname
- used in Wales since the Middle Ages, from Welsh "ardor"
- Jean Rhys
- orig. Ella Gwendolen Rees William born Aug. 24, 1890, Roseau, Dominica, Windward Islands, West Indies died May 14, 1979, Exeter, Devon, Eng. Dominican-born British novelist. Rhys left the West Indies for London to study acting at age
- Jean Rhys
- She later moved to Paris, where she was encouraged to write by Ford Madox Ford. She earned acclaim for short stories and novels set in the bohemian world of Europe in the 1920s and '30s, including Good Morning, Midnight (1939). After settling in Cornwall, she published nothing for nearly three decades before producing Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a memorable novel about Mr. Rochester's mad first wife in Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre (see Brontë sisters); and two story collections
- Sophie Rhys-Jones
- the wife of Prince Edward. She met the prince in 1993 and they got married in 1999. After the marriage, she became the Countess of Wessex (1965-)