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Jean Rhys’ highly personal fictional style pulls her own heritage into this prequel to Jane Eye. The imagined life of the first Mrs. Rochester, the madwoman in the attic, is told in alternate voices of Mr. and Mrs. Rochester. Listed as one of Time Magazine’s all-time 100 novels, it was the inspiration for a recent Stevie Nicks’ song as well as movie, opera, and television productions.

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