BBC6 年
Mary Rivers, Diana Rivers and Bertha in Jane Eyre
They welcome Jane into their family with open arms. Bertha is Rochester's first wife and she lives in Thornfield's attic, locked up and managed by Grace Poole. Bertha is described as mad ...
BBC5 年
Mary Rivers, Diana Rivers and Bertha in Jane Eyre
They welcome Jane into their family with open arms. Bertha is Rochester's first wife and she lives in Thornfield's attic, locked up and managed by Grace Poole. Bertha is described as mad ...
The Daily Telegraph1 个月
Sandra Gilbert, literary critic whose 1979 polemic The Madwoman in the Attic became a classic
Their 700-page study took Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre – with its passionate but repressed heroine and imprisoned double, Bertha Mason, the mad first wife of Mr Rochester locked in the attic ...