[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: MOVED from MAIN - "sequels" to the classics

[Lynn - horsenstuff@yahoo.com]

--- Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> BTW, someone mentioned "The Madwoman in the Attic,"
> which does refer to the mad wife of Mr. Rochester 
> in "Jane Eyre" but is actually a book of feminist 
> literary criticism, not a novel. The full title is
> "Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the
> Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination," and it 
> was published in 1979. The authors, Sandra Gilbert 
> and Susan Gubar, are well-known feminist critics 
> who examine novels by Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, 
> the Bront sisters, and others for repressed 
> sexuality or some such thing. <snip>


I was not referring to a book entitled "Mad Woman in
the Attic."  Simply using the phrase to refer to
Rochester's first wife in Jane Eyre.

The name of the book with the "Mad Wife" I was
referring to is "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
(sp?).

Lynn