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> Tag: Wide Sargasso Sea

The madwoman in the attic.

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

November 30, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

I don’t know why I’m surprised I didn’t enjoy this. I nearly always react poorly to post-modernism. But, I really *wanted* to enjoy it. Every time I’ve read Jane Eyre, I’ve thought Bertha Rochester, née Mason, got a really shit deal. I’ve also thought it was really suspect that we don’t actually get any evidence of her going mad prior to being locked in an attic for years and years. I mean, if I’d been locked in an attic for that long maybe I would start […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jane eyre, Jean Rhys, lit-fic, Literature, narfna, Postmodernism, read harder challenge 2018, Wide Sargasso Sea

narfna's CBR10 Review No:155 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jane eyre, Jean Rhys, lit-fic, Literature, narfna, Postmodernism, read harder challenge 2018, Wide Sargasso Sea ·
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Weird mix of weird

Across Five Aprils; Little Tales of Misogyny; Black Dahlia and White Rose; Wide Sargasso Sea; Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Irene Hunt; Patricia Highsmith; Joyce Carol Oates; Jean Rhys; Rosalyn Schanzer

October 17, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Across Five Aprils: 4/ 5 Stars This is another Civil War book, and another Civil War book taking place in the midwest, that I read as a kid. I grew up in the South and thought about the Civil War a LOT. It happens. Anyway, like Rifles for Watie mentioned in the previous one, this focuses on the western theater of the war but still deals a lot with the news from the East. This becomes a kind of interesting conceit, where our main character […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: across five aprils, black dahlia and white rose, irene hunt, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, little book of misogyny, Patricia Highsmith, rosalyn schanzer, Wide Sargasso Sea, witches

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:417 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: across five aprils, black dahlia and white rose, irene hunt, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, little book of misogyny, Patricia Highsmith, rosalyn schanzer, Wide Sargasso Sea, witches ·
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This is Madness!

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

September 17, 2014 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Antoinette Cosway, the main character of this novel, is the crazy woman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Rhys imagines the life of Rochester’s first wife and the events that drove her to madness, demonstrating her knowledge and understanding of Jamaican/West Indies history and culture as well as the powerful socio-economic forces that influenced post-Emancipation development there. As Francis Wyndham writes in the introduction, …Rhys knew about the mad Creole heiresses in the early nineteenth century, whose dowries were only an additional burden […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, charlotte bront, ElCicco, emancipation, Fiction, Jamaica, jane eyre, Jean Rhys, madness, Obeah, ReadWomen2014, Slavery, West Indies, Wide Sargasso Sea

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, charlotte bront, ElCicco, emancipation, Fiction, Jamaica, jane eyre, Jean Rhys, madness, Obeah, ReadWomen2014, Slavery, West Indies, Wide Sargasso Sea ·
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