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  1. Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea. Publication date. 2001. Topics. Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea, Caribbean Area -- In literature. Publisher. Cambridge : Icon Books. Collection.

  2. Study Guide. Character List. Next. Antoinette. The daughter of ex-slave owners and the story's principal character, based on the madwoman Bertha from Charlotte Brontë's gothic novel Jane Eyre. Antoinette is a sensitive and lonely young Creole girl who grows up with neither her mother's love nor her peers' companionship.

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  4. Feb 13, 2024 · Wide Sargasso Sea. by. Jean Rhys. Publication date. 1967-01-01. Publisher. World Books. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.

  5. Jan 1, 2022 · Wide Sargasso Sea. by. Rhys, Jean, author. Publication date. 2016. Topics. British -- West Indies -- Fiction, West Indies -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : W. W. Norton & Company.

  6. Apr 30, 2022 · The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in Jamaica and returns with him to his home in England. Locked in a loveless marriage and settled in an inhospitable climate, Antoinette goes mad and is frequently violent.

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  7. 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.

  8. Wide Sargasso Sea is a tale of passion, and madness. Its a story from a time when slavery was abolished and slave traders were shunned from the community in Jamaica. A little girl grows up and finds herself alienated from society, growing up away from love, as certain events tear her family apart.

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