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Dec 31, 1992 · Wide Sargasso Sea Review. The premise of Jean Rhys' huge-selling, psychological bodice-ripper is an imagined, backwards-in-time projection through the early life of the mad old dear banged up in a ...
Brief Synopsis. This prequel, set in Jamaica during the 1830s, relates the early life of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the willful and beautiful young Creole woman who becomes the bride of an English aristocrat and, shortly thereafter, the madwoman he sequesters in "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte's classic gothic novel.
Available on iTunes. 1840. Young female landowner Antoinette Cosway is forced to marry Edward Rochester, a despicable and racist Englishman who’s just arrived in the island, to avoid losing her property. But a secret of her childhood erodes their relationship even more. Drama 1993 1 hr 38 min.
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In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim ...
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Wide Sargasso Sea Summary. Antoinette Cosway, a creole, or Caribbean person of European descent, recounts her memories of growing up at her family’s estate, Coulibri, in Jamaica in the 1830‘s. Her family, consisting of her mother, Annette, and her mentally disabled younger brother, Pierre, are destitute and isolated after her father’s ...
