English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1712 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
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The idea
Jean Rhys, a British Creole novelist born on Dominica, wrote Wide Sargasso Sea, of nineteen sixty-six, a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Jane Eyre set in Jamaica. It tells the background to Rochester's marriage from the side of Antoinette, the woman Brontë's novel calls Bertha.
In practice
Bertha's story told first.
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