Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys · 1966 CE · Novel · Caribbean · Contemporary

Antoinette Cosway grows up on a decaying Jamaican estate after emancipation, white but not English, and is married off to a young Englishman who has come out for her money. He takes her to a house in the hills, renames her, and stops believing anything she tells him. The madwoman in Jane Eyre's attic given her own voice and Caribbean past; the silenced side of the story.

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• responds to ↑ Jane Eyre
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