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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.
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film directed by John Duigan, and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. It is an adaptation of Jean Rhys 's 1966 novel of the same name . Premise
Jean Rhys: Letters 1931–1966 is a posthumous compilation of author Jean Rhys's letters, first published in 1984 by André Deutsch [1] and from 1985 by Penguin Books. [2]The letters were selected and edited by Diana Melly (wife of George Melly and close friend of Jean Rhys) [3] with Francis Wyndham, who had helped revive Rhys's writing career late in her life.
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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 ]
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