She had published other novels between these works, but Wide Sargasso Sea caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel.
Rhys lived in obscurity after her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939. Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation. Antoinette is caught in a patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica. Rochester, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, takes her to England, and isolates her from the rest of the world in his mansion. Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to an English gentleman, Mr. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys's version of Brontë's " madwoman in the attic". Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys.
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