An annotated edition of Jean Rhys's novel centered upon Bertha, the Jamaican madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; includes several of Rhys's letters, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and works of criticism discussing such aspects of the novel as colonialism, race, and Caribbean culture.
year: 1992, 1999, 1966, 1982
call number/section: 1000, 823
subjects: man-woman relationships, west indies, fiction, british, man-woman relationship, historical fiction, love stories, caribbean area, fiction, west indies, women, mental illness, social life and customs, 19th century, romance fiction, fiction, historical fiction, love stories
Editions
Rhys, Jean
Norton (1992)
Story of a young woman in the Caribbean whose family's past will be used against her by her cold-hearted and prideful husband, Rochester.
Schools: 7
Rhys, Jean
W.W. Norton (1999)
An annotated edition of Jean Rhys's novel centered upon Bertha, the Jamaican madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; includes several of Rhys's letters, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and works of criticism discussing such aspects of the novel as colonialism, race, and Caribbean culture.
Schools: 2
Rhys, Jean
Buccaneer (1966)
Story of a young woman in the Caribbean whose family's past will be used against her by her cold-hearted and prideful husband, Rochester.
Schools: 1
Rhys, Jean
W.W. Norton & Co. (1982)
Imaginatively constructs the girlhook and marriage of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the mysterious madwoman in Jane Eyre.
Schools: 0
Rhys, Jean
Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Bront??'s Jane Eyre.
Schools: 2