Bronte Wife In 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.

Bronte wife in attic.

The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel. And his wife is locked in the attic. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary. In 1979 sandra gilbert and susan gubar made a breakthrough in feminist criticism with their work the madwoman in the attic.

However bertha s position as the madwoman in the attic also speaks to larger social questions of femininity and authorship during the victorian period. The owners of norton conyers say they found a hidden staircase with strong similarities to the one in jane eyre which mr rochester uses to reach his wife s attic in 2004. 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. 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.