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  1. A novel by Jean Rhys that explores the backstory of Bertha Mason, the madwoman in Jane Eyre. The novel follows Antoinette, a white Creole heiress in Jamaica, who marries an Englishman and becomes Bertha.

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      Full Title Wide Sargasso Sea. Author Jean Rhys. Type of work...

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      Wide Sargasso Sea characters include: Antoinette, Annette,...

  2. A plot summary of Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea, covering the three sections of the novel and the main characters. The novel follows Antoinette Cosway, a creole woman who grows up in Jamaica and marries an Englishman, but faces challenges and dangers from her past and her husband. The novel explores themes of race, class, madness, and colonialism.

  3. Wide Sargasso Sea Summary. Wide Sargasso Sea begins in Jamaica after the Emancipation Act of 1833, under which Britain outlawed slavery in all its colonies. The first part of the novella is told from the point-of-view of Antoinette Cosway, a young white girl whose father, a hated former slaveholder, has died and left his wife and children in ...

  4. 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.

  5. A comprehensive guide to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, a rewriting of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Learn about the plot, themes, characters, symbols, and historical context of this postcolonial novel that explores the problems of identity and inequality in the Caribbean.

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