Book Crazy Wife Locked In Attic

Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife née bertha mason is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband.

Book crazy wife locked in attic.

The madwoman in the attic. The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel. Bertha mason rochester s first wife was a beautiful creole woman from jamaica who rochester married years ago before she had a mental breakdown and. And his wife is locked in the attic.

The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination is a 1979 book by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in which they examine victorian literature from a feminist perspective. Bertha mason full name bertha antoinetta mason is a fictional character in charlotte brontë s 1847 novel jane eyre she is described as the violently insane first wife of edward rochester who moved her to thornfield hall and locked her in a room on the third floor. In it jane eyre an orphan turned governess with a miserable childhood falls in love with her new boss mr. Jane eyre by charlotte brontë.

According to an article in the guardian the mad woman in the attic was actually based on a true story. This video covers the plot of jane eyre a novel by charlotte brontë. Looks money a crazy wife locked up in the attic. He has it all.