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- Part Three is the shortest part of the novel; it is from the perspective of Antoinette, renamed by her husband as Bertha.
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Synopsis. A prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' (7377), this is Jean Rhys' story of Antoinette Cosway from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage with Mr Rochester and relocation to England. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness.
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Jean Rhys gives form and substance to the mysterious madwoman of Jane Eyre. This imaginary story constructs Antoinette Bertha Cosway's early years in Jamaica in the 1830's. Jill Masters's West Indies dialect is excellent. It is a bright relief from her dour elecution of instruction on how to handle and care for audio tapes; she continues this ...
Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece 'Wide Sargasso Sea' was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress, Antoinette Cosway, meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and ...
Part Three is the shortest part of the novel; it is from the perspective of Antoinette, renamed by her husband as Bertha. Mr. Mr. Rochester's father and brother have died, so he has returned to England with Antoinette to claim his sizeable inheritance.
- October 1966
- Postmodern novel
Apr 26, 2001 · Wide Sargasso Sea (Listen and Read Editions) Paperback – April 26, 2001 by Jean Rhys (Author), Hilary Jenkins (Author) 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 2,676 ratings
- Jean Rhys, Hilary Jenkins
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea—that has a passionate following today.