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JEAN RHYS - GEBRAUCHT WIDE SARGASSO SEA STUDENT...

Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic' 
Bertha Rochester  Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction and notes by
Angela Smith in Penguin Classics. Born into the oppressive  colonialist society of 1930s
Jamaica  white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her
innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage  however  disturbing rumours begin to
circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own
precarious sense of belonging  Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness  and her husband
into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal  a seminal work of
postcolonial literature  is Jean Rhys's brief  beautiful masterpiece. Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was
born in Dominica. Coming to England aged 16  she drifted into various jobs before moving to
Paris  where she began writing and was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford. Her novels  often
portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities  were ahead of their time and
only modestly successful. From 1939 (when Good Morning  Midnight was written) onwards she lived
reclusively  and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of
Jane Eyre's Bertha Rochester  Wide Sargasso Sea  in 1966. If you enjoyed Wide Sargasso Sea  you
might like Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre  also available in Penguin Classics. 'She took one of
the works of genius of the nineteenth century and turned it inside-out to create one of the
works of genius of the twentieth century' Michele Roberts  The Times

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