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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.
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 ]
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 ...
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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.
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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.
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