Bronte Wife In Attic

And his wife is locked in the attic.

Bronte wife in attic.

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. Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife née bertha mason is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband. The madwoman in the attic. The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel.

In 1979 sandra gilbert and susan gubar made a breakthrough in feminist criticism with their work the madwoman in the attic. The owners of norton conyers say they found a hidden staircase with strong similarities to the one in jane eyre which mr rochester uses to reach his wife s attic in 2004. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary. However bertha s position as the madwoman in the attic also speaks to larger social questions of femininity and authorship during the victorian period.