Fall Book Club: The Wide Sargasso Sea (Part 1 of 3)

In the novel Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason is the estranged, secret wife of Edward Rochester, the mysterious madwoman in the attic of
Thornfield Hall. Bertha's origins lie in the distant Caribbean, but what
is her back story? Why did she become the "savage" woman described in
Charlotte Brontë 's novel?

Caribbean writer Jean Rhys seeks to answer these questions in Wide Sargasso Sea, a Modern literary response to a classic British Victorian novel.

Our guest speaker and discussion leader is Dr. Carey Snyder, an
associate professor in the Department of English at Ohio University.