Mad Wife In The Attic

Bertha mason full name bertha antoinetta mason is a fictional character in charlotte brontë s 1847 novel jane eyre 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.

Mad wife in the attic. The madwoman in the 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. Prostitution alcoholism and the mad woman in the attic alcoholic often destitute and abandoned by a series of men jean rhys led a tortured life according to a new biography. This may also have been the case for the supposed mad woman.

Sometimes i have an opportunity to do commissions for doll. I love being sequestered in my cluttered attic studio when things are going well time just stands still. 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. Behind a hidden door in the wall paneling a secret staircase leads to a small corner of the attic known as mad mary s room the story went that.

Thanks to the support of my patient husband my dream studio has become a reality and being the mad wife in the attic is now a good thing. And his wife is locked in the attic. I hope you ll enjoy browsing my work. I welcome your comments.

The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel. According to gilbert and gubar all female characters in male authored books can be categorized as either the angel or the. In the 700 page text gilbert and gubar use the figure of bertha mason as the so called madwoman in the attic to make an argument about perceptions toward female literary characters during the time period. Attic that inspired jane eyre s madwoman in the attic bertha open for public tours.

Charlotte brontë s fictional character the mentally ill bertha mason is locked in the attic for ten years. Please visit my etsy shop for items currently for sale and ready to ship.