Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Antoinette Cosway is a sensual and protected young woman, a Creole heiress in Jamaica. Her stepfather, Mr. Mason, sells her into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester, who renames her Bertha. In England she faces a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind. -- adapted from back cover and perusal of book.
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