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Sep 1, 2015 · Jamaica, 1840s. In the untold tale of the madwoman in the attic of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard) falls madly in love with her newly arrived groom-to-be, Edward Rochester (Nathaniel Parker) - and awakens sexually in a steamy world of erotic obsession, voodoo and madness. But when the untamed world of magic and ...
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92,354 ratings8,188 reviews. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters.
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Box office. $1,614,784 [1] Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film directed by John Duigan, and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. It is an adaptation of Jean Rhys 's 1966 novel of the same name .
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- Stewart Copeland
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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.
- October 1966
- Postmodern novel
King is known to the British public for her portrayal of Amelie in Wide Sargasso Sea, the 1993 film adaptation, directed by John Duigan, of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name; and as Rachel Morris in director Julian Richards' 1996 horror film Darklands.
YearTitleRoleNotes2022KalleRecurring - Apple TV+2022Nina KrugerRecurring - FX2022Maureen GrovesITV2022Edith LarsenITV- Rowena King, 14 February 1969, London, England
- 1991–present
- Actress
- Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts,
Apr 23, 1993 · Unnerved by monster moths, the hauteur of Christophene, the pounding of all those drums and the unmistakable bedroom eyes of the fetching Amelie (Rowena King), Rochester starts to lose his...
The white daughter of ex-slave owners, she lives on a run-down plantation called Coulibri Estate. Five years have passed since her father, Mr. Cosway, reportedly drunk himself to death, his finances in ruins after the passage of the Emancipation Act of 1833, which freed Black enslaved people and led to the demise of many white slave owners.