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As a lover of Jane Eyre I've always known that sooner or later, I should get around to reading Wide Sargasso Sea. (If you haven't read Jane Eyre, please stop reading this review now, as there's no way to review the one without spoiling the other.) Jean Rhys drew upon her own childhood to craft the backstory of Bertha Antoinetta Mason, the first wife of Edward Rochester and resident madwoman in the attic at Thornfield. In Jane Eyre, Rochester tells his side of the story -- how as a young man, his
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Actually, made me want to read her earlier work instead.
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