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- Set in lush 19th century Jamaica, this is the story of the relationship between a passionate Creole heiress, Antoinette, and a brooding Englishman, Edward Rochester.
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823.912. LC Class. PR6035 .H96. Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë 's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. Antoinette ...
Full Title Wide Sargasso Sea. Author Jean Rhys. Type of work Novel. Genre Postcolonial novel; reinterpretation; prequel. Language English, with bits of French patois and Creole dialect. Time and place written Mid-1940s to mid-1960s; England. Date of first publication First version of Part One published in 1964; completed novel published in 1966.
Introduction. Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966 toward the end of Jean Rhys 's writing career, was the most successful of Rhys's literary works. The novel was well received when it was first published and has never been out of print. It also continues to draw the interest of academics and literary critics today.
