Book Crazy Wife Locked In Attic

Anonymous asked in arts humanities books authors 1 decade ago what is the name of the novel about an man who had a wife that was crazy and he lokced her in the attic.

Book crazy wife locked in attic.

But astonishingly this may not have all been fiction. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination is a 1979 book by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in which they examine victorian literature from a feminist perspective. She is described as the violently insane first wife of edward rochester who moved her to thornfield hall and locked her in a room on the third floor. Bertha mason is a fictional character in charlotte brontë s 1847 novel jane eyre.

Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband. It is the story of mason from the time of her youth in the caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to england. The madwoman in the attic. Charlotte brontë s jane eyre is well known for the shocking discovery of mr rochester s scandalous hidden wife a deranged woman locked away in an attic.

Rhys s novel re imagines brontë s devilish.