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Author: Jean Rhys
First Published: 1966
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Domestic realism
Time of Work: The 1830’s
Setting: Jamaica, Dominica, and England
Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, Caribbean, Love or romance, Race, Nature, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Alienation, England or English people, Jamaica or Jamaicans
Locales: England, West Indies, Jamaica, Dominica, Windward Islands

Antoinette Cosway, later Bertha Mason Rochester, whose story constitutes a revisionist treatment of events culminating in her transformation into the famed madwoman in the attic, Bertha Mason Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Antoinette, the protagonist and narrator of approximately one-half of the story, reflects on her youth and the loneliness and isolation that she experienced as a white Creole child in the predominantly black West Indies. Having outlived most of her family, she halfheartedly submits to a marriage with the...

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