In "Wide Sargasso Sea", West Indian author Jean Rhys wrote about the West Indian 1st wife of this "Jane Eyre" hero
Comparing 
Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre - Authors, Jean Rhys and Charlotte ... What a 
shame to make Rochester's wife, Bertha, the awful madwoman, and I 
immediately .... Wally Look Lai believes that "The West Indian setting...is central 
to the novel.