<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 233 - 95866 - 5 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 4248898 </Td> </Tr> <P> Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica - born British author Jean Rhys . The author lived in obscurity after her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939 . 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 . 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 . Antoinette Cosway is Rhys' version of Brontë's devilish "madwoman in the attic". Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to a certain unnamed English gentleman, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, and then takes her to England . Antoinette is caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she neither fully belongs to Europe nor Jamaica . Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power relationships between men and women and develops postcolonial themes, such as racism, displacement and assimilation . </P> <P> 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 . The protagonist Antoinette relates the story of her life from childhood to her arranged marriage to an unnamed Englishman . </P>

Which 1966 novel is a prequel to jane eyre