He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. What am I doing in this place and who am I?' 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now. Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'
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