Guide to the classics: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Written by Sue Thomas, Emeritus Professor of English, La Trobe University
Linen Market, Dominica, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, circa 1780Wikimedia Commons
In Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847) the marriage ceremony of Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester is spectacularly interrupted by the solicitor Mr Briggs declaring an impediment to the union: the prior marriage of Rochester to Bertha...