Editing Jean Rhys (section)

==Later years==
From 1960, and for the rest of her life, Rhys lived in [[Cheriton Fitzpaine]] in Devon, once described by her as "a dull spot which even drink can't enliven much."<ref>[http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Villagers-reject-dull-spot-jibe/story-11826347-detail/story.html "Villagers Reject 'Dull Spot' Jibe"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121084752/http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Villagers-reject-dull-spot-jibe/story-11826347-detail/story.html |date=21 November 2015}}, ''Exeter Express & Echo'', 11 February 2010.</ref> Characteristically, she remained unimpressed by her belated ascent to literary fame, commenting, "It has come too late."<ref name=Penguin/> In an interview shortly before her death she questioned whether any novelist, not least herself, could ever be happy for any length of time: "If I could choose I would rather be happy than write... if I could live my life all over again, and choose...."<ref>''In Their Own Words: British Novelists. Ep. 1: Among the Ruins (1919–1939)''. [[BBC]] (2010).</ref>