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   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.

   • Publication date: October 1966
   • Genre: Postmodern novel

   • Author: Jean Rhys

2. www.literaryladiesguide.com › author-biographyJean Rhys, Author of Wide Sargasso Sea | LiteraryLadiesGuide

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   Mar 7, 2016 · Visit her on the web at at DM Denton Author & Artist an BardessMDenton. Categories: Author biography. Jean Rhys (1890 – 1979) was a novelist best known for Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel and post-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

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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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   • Rhys had a uniquely lonely intelligence, and a talent for facing hard truths. If all you know of her is “Wide Sargasso Sea,” this book will encourage you to branch out. That’s nearly — almost, maybe — worth the price of admission. Dwight Garner has been a book critic for The Times since 2008.

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   What is Wide Sargasso Sea about?

   • Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation as Antoinette is caught in a white, patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica.

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   Is Wide Sargasso Sea a postcolonial response to Jane Eyre?

   • Waking from her dream she escapes her room, and sets out candle in hand. Since the late 20th century, critics have considered Wide Sargasso Sea as a postcolonial response to Jane Eyre. Rhys uses multiple voices (Antoinette's, her husband's, and Grace Poole's) to tell the story, and intertwines her novel's plot with that of Jane Eyre.

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4. www.goodreads.com › author › showJean Rhys (Author of Wide Sargasso Sea) - Goodreads

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   Born. in Roseau or Grand Bay, British Leeward Islands (now Dominica) August 24, 1890. Died. May 14, 1979. Genre. Fiction. edit data. Jean Rhys, CBE (born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams; 24 August 1890–14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica.

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   • Death Date: May 14, 1979

   • Birth Date: August 24, 1890

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   Jun 20, 2022 · Miranda Seymour’s “I Used to Live Here Once” is a biography of the author of “Wide Sargasso Sea,” who had a talent for facing hard truths. Share full article. By Dwight Garner. June 20,...

6. www.britannica.com › topic › Wide-Sargasso-SeaWide Sargasso Sea | Caribbean, Postcolonial & Feminism

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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.

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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. Jean Rhys. W. W. Norton & Company, 1992 - Fiction - 189 pages. Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she...