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en-wikipedia-org-8272		Wide Sargasso Sea - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2194	211	71	Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys. It is a feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. The novel, initially set in Jamaica, opens a short while after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire on 1 August 1834.[1] The protagonist Antoinette relates the story of her life from childhood to her arranged marriage to an unnamed Englishman. Since the late 20th century, critics have considered Wide Sargasso Sea as a postcolonial response to Jane Eyre.[2][3] Rhys uses multiple voices (Antoinette's, her husband's, and Grace Poole's) to tell the story, and intertwines her novel's plot with that of Jane Eyre. On 5 November 2019, BBC News listed Wide Sargasso Sea on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[7] Wide Sargasso Sea (novel)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8272.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8272.txt