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   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.

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   Wide Sargasso Sea, novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966. A well-received work of fiction, it takes its theme and main character from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. 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.

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   She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. In 1978, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writing.

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   Who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • 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.

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   Is Wide Sargasso Sea a prequel to Jane Eyre?

   • Wide Sargasso Sea by British author Jean Rhys, published in 1966, is a compelling and complex novel that is meant to serve as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

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   Is Wide Sargasso Sea based on a true story?

   • Australian filmmaker John Duigan directed a 1993 erotic drama, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Rhys's best-known novel. The 2003 book and stage play After Mrs Rochester by Polly Teale is based on the life of Jean Rhys and her book, Wide Sargasso Sea.

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   Which novel is related to Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • The novel published during this period that is perhaps most closely related to Wide Sargasso Sea is A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), by fellow Caribbean author V.S. Naipaul. The novel describes the island of Trinidad during the final decades of its status as a British colony, from the perspective an Indian immigrant.

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5. literariness.org › 2019/05/29 › analysis-of-jeanAnalysis of Jean Rhys’s Novel Wide Sargasso Sea

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   May 29, 2019 · By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on May 29, 2019 • ( 1 ) When Wide Sargasso Sea, her last novel, was published, Jean Rhys (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was described in The New York Times as the greatest living novelist. Such praise is overstated, but Rhys’s fiction, long overlooked by academic critics, is undergoing a revival spurred by feminist ...

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   The Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966 at age 76. Rewarded by the Royal Society Literature Award, this novel highlighted an author who remained in the shadows. His life undoubtedly inspired Jean Rhys to create the character of Antoinette.

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   Wide Sargasso Sea by British author Jean Rhys, published in 1966, is a compelling and complex novel that is meant to serve as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in Jamaica during the post-emancipation 1840s, the novel explores the life of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole woman who, in Rhys’s imagining, becomes the madwoman in the ...

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   Summary. Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. Wide Sargasso Sea: Introduction. A concise biography of Jean Rhys plus historical and literary context for Wide Sargasso Sea. Wide Sargasso Sea: Plot Summary.