The title is a reversal of premise: Mr Mackenzie has left Julia Martin rather than vice versa. Julia's three romantic figures Rhys calls "Mr" (Mr Mackenzie, Mr Horsfield and Mr James). The protagonist is Julia Martin, Rhys's fictional counterpart. The third-person narrative switches between more character viewpoints than in other early Rhys novels. The Rhys heroine's age and social descent progress here from Quartet, reaching completion in Good Morning, Midnight (1939). As Quartet explored Marya Zelli's relationship and breakup, this novel tracks Julia Martin's post-breakup months when her ex-lover's allowance cheques stop. Set in interwar Paris and London, the novel is autobiographical fiction and thematically sequential to Rhys's debut novel Quartet (1928). Mackenzie (1931) was Jean Rhys's second novel, originally published by Jonathan Cape.
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