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823.912. LC Class. PR6035 .H96. 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. Antoinette ...
Maillotte. Like Christophine, a black servant who distinguishes herself by not being Jamaican. Maillotte is Tia's mother and Christophine's only friend. A list of all the characters in Wide Sargasso Sea. Characters include: Antoinette, Annette, Mr. Rochester , Christophine, Mr. Mason and more.
Wide Sargasso Sea - Full Cast & Crew. 1993; 1 hr 38 mins Drama NC17 Watchlist. Where to Watch. Adaptation of Jean Rhys's novel about an arranged marriage between an Englishman and a Creole woman ...
Annette. Annette, a white Creole woman from Martinique and the widow of an ex-slave owner, is Antoinette’s mother. Although the reader’s knowledge of her experiences is primarily limited to what young Antoinette can see and narrate in Part 1 of the novel, Annette’s psychological decline in the aftermath of losing both her first husband ...
Jean Rhys dropped from sight until nearly twenty years later she was discovered living reclusively in Cornwall. During those years she had accumulated the stories collected in Tigers are Better-Looking. In 1966 she made a sensational reappearance with Wide Sargasso Sea, which won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the W. H. Smith Award.
6/10. prequel to Jane Eyre. blanche-2 1 February 2013. "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a 1993 film starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. Based on the novel by Jean Rhys, it's Rhys' imagining of the first marriage of Edward Rochester's, before the book Jane Eyre begins.
Mar 14, 2024 · 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.
