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There really should be a story from the POV of Rochester's wife
Kevin wrote: "There really should be a story from the POV of Rochester's wife"
There is!! Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is the fairly famous novel which fleshes out a backstory for Rochester's first wife :>
Wide Sargasso Sea and Jamaica In. Are both indebted to the Gothic style of Jayne Eyre but any further comparison is putting desire ahead of what is in the texts
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Mar 06, 2026 02:54PM
There really should be a story from the POV of Rochester's wife
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Kevin wrote: "There really should be a story from the POV of Rochester's wife"There is!! Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is the fairly famous novel which fleshes out a backstory for Rochester's first wife :>
Wide Sargasso Sea and Jamaica In. Are both indebted to the Gothic style of Jayne Eyre but any further comparison is putting desire ahead of what is in the texts
