Both Rhys and her character started out life in the West Indies and ended up living in England, both dying there.Īlthough Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea are novels, I wonder if we can read the minds of their authors in their stories. Jean Rhys gives a 20th century explanation to a mystery in a 19th century novel, and I can’t help believe that is to a certain degree psychologically, and maybe sexually, autobiographical. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) can be read without any knowledge of Jane Eyre (1847), and is a completely stand-alone novel. Rhys wrote many stories and novels before becoming famous late in life with Wide Sargasso Sea, a literary prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Jean Rhys explored the depths of the feminine mind living in a masculine dominated society.
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