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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleThe book that changed Jane Eyre forever - BBC

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   Oct 20, 2016 · That book became Wide Sargasso Sea but it wasn’t until 1966, after many years of drafting and redrafting, that it was released. Rhys was 76 and hadn’t published anything in 27 years.

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3. lithub.com › read-the-first-reviews-of-jean-rhysRead the first reviews of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea.

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   Aug 24, 2023 · Wide Sargasso Sea is an atmospheric, evocative, doom-ridden romance in its own right, using certain characters from Jane Eyre but evolving independently in its own lush setting.” –The Daily World, June 11, 1967 “Wide Sargasso Sea is not just a great novel, it is many brilliant books in one. Multi-layered and complex, Jean Rhys’s prelude ...

4. literariness.org › 2019/05/29 › analysis-of-jeanAnalysis of Jean Rhys’s Novel Wide Sargasso Sea

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   May 29, 2019 · When Wide Sargasso Sea, her last novel, was published, Jean Rhys (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was described in The New York Times as the greatest living novelist. Such praise is overstated, but Rhys’s fiction, long overlooked by academic critics, is undergoing a revival spurred by feminist studies. Rhys played a noteworthy role….

5. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › booksBook Of A Lifetime: Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys

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   Wide Sargasso Sea is not just a great novel, it is many brilliant books in one. Multi-layered and complex, Jean Rhys's prelude to Jane Eyre vividly illustrates how accounts and understanding ...

6. www.litcharts.com › lit › wide-sargasso-seaWide Sargasso Sea Study Guide | Literature Guide - LitCharts

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   Other Books Related to Wide Sargasso Sea. Wide Sargasso Sea is a rewriting of Charlotte Bronte’s classic nineteenth-century gothic bildungsroman (1847). In Bronte’s novel, Bertha Mason is more monster than human, locked away for a decade in secret, in the attic of Thornfield Hall, where her demonic laughter and “savage” snarls disturb ...

7. topazliterary.com › 2022/01/23 › there-is-always“There is always another side, always”: Wide Sargasso Sea by ...

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   Jan 23, 2022 · The book is a beautiful, complicated wonder. It tells the story of Mr. Rochester’s first wife (Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre), the iconic “madwoman in the attic.”. Published in 1966 (119 years after Brontë’s novel), Wide Sargasso Sea is a reimagining of Bertha and a reckoning with the way Jane Eyre others and dehumanizes her — she is ...

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   Is Wide Sargasso Sea a good book?

   • Wide Sargasso Sea is an atmospheric, evocative, doom-ridden romance in its own right, using certain characters from Jane Eyre but evolving independently in its own lush setting.” – The Daily World, June 11, 1967 “ Wide Sargasso Sea is not just a great novel, it is many brilliant books in one.

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   How old was Rhys when her book Wide Sargasso Sea was published?

   • By then, many believed Rhys had died; when she resurfaced, she revealed that she was working on a novel about Bertha Mason, the first Mrs Rochester. That book became Wide Sargasso Sea but it wasn’t until 1966, after many years of drafting and redrafting, that it was released. Rhys was 76 and hadn’t published anything in 27 years.

   The book that changed Jane Eyre forever - BBC

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   Is Wide Sargasso Sea based on a true story?

   • Wide Sargasso Sea is a rewriting of Charlotte Bronte’s classic nineteenth-century gothic bildungsroman (1847). In Bronte’s novel, Bertha Mason is more monster than human, locked away for a decade in secret, in the attic of Thornfield Hall, where her demonic laughter and “savage” snarls disturb the residents of the mansion, including Jane Eyre.

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   Why is Wide Sargasso Sea important?

   • The release and success of the book prompted a huge revival of interest in Rhys’ work and today Wide Sargasso Sea is considered to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century as well as a foundation text of Postcolonial literature courses around the world.

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   How does the Wide Sargasso Sea reader view Rochester?

   • From his very first scene in Jane Eyre, the Wide Sargasso Sea reader will view Rochester quite differently. When he rides onto the page on horseback and slips on ice, his grudging admission that he needs Jane’s help shifts from a beguiling glimpse of vulnerability to an unappealing display of surliness.

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   What is Wide Sargasso Sea about?

   • Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of Antoinette Cosway, from her youth in Jamaica to her unhappy marriage to Jane Eyre’s Mr Rochester (Credit: BBC) We had some regular callers, and we had a few titles that, whatever the show’s theme in any given month, would crop up again and again.

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9. www.thebubble.org.uk › culture › literatureWide Sargasso Sea: a postcolonial reading (part one)

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   Mar 11, 2018 · Wide Sargasso Sea: a postcolonial reading (part one) Katie Ashmore-Marsh in Literature on 11 March, 2018. The postcolonial novel deals implicitly and explicitly with ‘the ideas of nation and nationhood’, regarding the struggle of nations after colonial control is relinquished to regain a sense of their own nation and for the population a ...