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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.
In an appreciation in the New York Times Book Review in 1974, A. Alvarez called Jean Rhys “quite simply, the best living English novelist". [21] Jean Rhys was appointed a CBE in the 1978 New Year Honours. Australian filmmaker John Duigan directed a 1993 erotic drama, Wide Sargasso Sea, [22] based on Rhys's best-known novel.
The novel and film explore Jean Rhys's account of the West Indian Creole heiress, here called Antoinette Cosway, who marries the Englishman Mr. Rochester, and becomes his "madwoman in the attic" featured in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. For a full-length summary see: plot summary of Wide Sargasso Sea.
Cheriton Fitzpaine is the village in Devon, England, where Jean Rhys lived for her last nineteen years, with Max Hamer and after his death, slowly completing her final novel Wide Sargasso Sea. [14] Part Six: Wide Sargasso Sea (1964–1966) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) renewed Rhys's literary career and brought her global acclaim. [15] [16] The book ...
The novel has also been the subject of a number of significant rewritings and related interpretations, notably Jean Rhys's seminal 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. [24] A famous line in the book is at the beginning of Chapter 38: "Reader, I married him." Many authors have used a variation of this line in their work.
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys is inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and gives Bertha Mason's history, experiences and perspective. Two film adaptations of the same name have been released, one in 1993 and another in 2006. [43] [44] "Prisoners of the Sargasso Sea" was a story published in Batman number 122 dated March 1959.
Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on 9 October 2006. [1]
The novel depicts Rochester as an unfaithful and cruel spouse, and in its reshaping of events related to Jane Eyre suggests that Bertha's madness is not congenital but instead the result of negative childhood experiences and Mr. Rochester's unloving treatment of her. [41] Rochester has appeared in adaptations of Wide Sargasso Sea.