Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys ; introduction by Francis Wyndham
Contributors: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Publisher: W. W. Norton; Perfection Learning
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780756990374
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction; British
Description: Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
Notes: Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontèe.