Charlotte brontë s jane eyre is well known for the shocking discovery of mr rochester s scandalous hidden wife a deranged woman locked away in an attic.
Book crazy wife locked in attic.
The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel.
Bertha mason is a fictional character in charlotte brontë s 1847 novel jane eyre.
Rhys s novel re imagines brontë s devilish.
In the book jane eyre mason is locked away in the upper enclaves of the home for ten years by her husband for being mad before she sets fire to the home she shares with her spouse and throws.
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 naturally had to be locked in the attic.
Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband.
It is the story of mason from the time of her youth in the caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to england.
But astonishingly this may not have all been fiction.
The madwoman in the attic.