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  2. Apr 4, 2024 · Wide Sargasso Sea, her astonishing and unanticipated comeback, became her most successful novel, winning her the 1967 WH Smith Literary Award and bringing her back into the public eye.

  3. Mar 29, 2024 · For my neighbourhood book club, I read Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, a feminist, postcolonial prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Antoinette Cosway, Mr Rochester’s “madwoman in the ...

  4. 6 days ago · We, therefore, turn to Jean Rhys’s literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The book was written as a feminist and postcolonial prequel to Jane Eyre (1847) in an attempt to bring justice to the first Mrs. Rochester, Antoinette, who is simply referred to as “the madwoman in the attic” in Brontë’s original. Rhys hears voices that ...

  5. Apr 2, 2024 · Description. Jean Rhys' 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 beauty.

  6. 3 days ago · 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.

  7. Apr 2, 2024 · Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel. By Jean Rhys. New Price: $11.70. Used Price: $1.01. Mentioned in: Book Previews. Most Anticipated: The Great Spring 2024 Preview. Editor - 4.2.2024. April April 2 Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall [F] For starters, excellent title.

  8. 5 days ago · The modern canon is unimaginable without such acts of appropriation as James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” which deposited the “Odyssey” in 1904 Dublin, and Jean Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea ...

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