![]() There, a young Mr Rochester (who is never named) meets and marries a beautiful Creole heiress, Antoinette. ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea is set in a lush 19th century Jamaica, all violence, voodoo and vibrant colours, and like many of Jean Rhys's work contains many elements of her own life story. Wide Sargasso Sea, published 120 years after Charlotte Brontë's classic, tells the story of Rochester's first wife, who appears in Jane Eyre as a slavering lunatic, and who lacks any voice to put us right. But what is so unsettling about this book is that Jean Rhys suggests that Bertha Mason, aka mad wife in the attic, is not just Rochester's skeleton in the closet she is ours as well. ![]() Most readers are familiar with the book that inspired it, Jane Eyre, and many of us (well, at least some) swooned over the smouldering hero Mr Rochester.
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