A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an ...

Jane Eyre’s 'madwoman in the attic', given a voice at last in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. The panel of The Novels That Shaped Our World have chosen these novels on the theme of Class and ...