<P> Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica - born British author Jean Rhys . The author lived in obscurity after her previous work , Good Morning , Midnight , was published in 1939 . She had published other novels between these works , but Wide Sargasso Sea caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel . It is a feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë 's novel Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) , describing the background to Mr Rochester 's marriage from the point - of - view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway , a Creole heiress . Antoinette Cosway is Rhys ' version of Brontë 's devilish `` madwoman in the attic '' . Antoinette 's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica , to her unhappy marriage to a certain unnamed English gentleman , who renames her Bertha , declares her mad , and then takes her to England . Antoinette is caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she neither fully belongs to Europe nor Jamaica . Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power relationships between men and women and develops postcolonial themes , such as racism , displacement and assimilation . </P>
<P> Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica - born British author Jean Rhys . The author lived in obscurity after her previous work , Good Morning , Midnight , was published in 1939 . She had published other novels between these works , but Wide Sargasso Sea caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel . It is a feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë 's novel Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) , describing the background to Mr Rochester 's marriage from the point - of - view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway , a Creole heiress . Antoinette Cosway is Rhys ' version of Brontë 's devilish `` madwoman in the attic '' . Antoinette 's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica , to her unhappy marriage to a certain unnamed English gentleman , who renames her Bertha , declares her mad , and then takes her to England . Antoinette is caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she neither fully belongs to Europe nor Jamaica . Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power relationships between men and women and develops postcolonial themes , such as racism , displacement and assimilation . </P>
which 1966 novel is a prequel to jane eyre
which 1966 novel is a prequel to jane eyre
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea