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  1. www.sparknotes.com › lit › sargassoWide Sargasso Sea: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes

    A novel by Jean Rhys that explores the backstory of Bertha Mason, the madwoman in Jane Eyre. It follows Antoinette, a white Creole heiress in Jamaica, who marries an Englishman and becomes Bertha.

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  2. www.litcharts.com › lit › wide-sargasso-seaWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Plot Summary | LitCharts

    Wide Sargasso Sea Summary. Antoinette Cosway, a creole, or Caribbean person of European descent, recounts her memories of growing up at her family’s estate, Coulibri, in Jamaica in the 1830‘s. Her family, consisting of her mother, Annette, and her mentally disabled younger brother, Pierre, are destitute and isolated after her father’s ...

  3. www.gradesaver.com › wide-sargasso-sea › study-guideWide Sargasso Sea Summary | GradeSaver

    Wide Sargasso Sea Summary. Wide Sargasso Sea begins in Jamaica after the Emancipation Act of 1833, under which Britain outlawed slavery in all its colonies. The first part of the novella is told from the point-of-view of Antoinette Cosway, a young white girl whose father, a hated former slaveholder, has died and left his wife and children in ...

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wide_Sargasso_SeaWide Sargasso Sea - Wikipedia

    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.

  6. www.litcharts.com › lit › wide-sargasso-seaWide Sargasso Sea Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitCharts

    A comprehensive guide to Jean Rhys's novel, a postcolonial rewriting of Jane Eyre from the perspective of Bertha Mason. Find plot summary, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.

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