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.
Book crazy wife locked in attic.
Anonymous asked in arts humanities books authors 1 decade ago what is the name of the novel about an man who had a wife that was crazy and he lokced her in the attic.
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.
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.
But astonishingly this may not have all been fiction.
The madwoman in the attic.
The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel.
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.
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.