In "Wide Sargasso Sea", West Indian author Jean Rhys wrote about the West Indian 1st wife of this "Jane Eyre" hero
[DOC] [TLE] An introduction to Wide Sargasso Sea - The British Library [PAR] Bidisha describes how Jean Rhys's novel portrays the racial and sexual ... and a 
prequel to Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre, set in the West Indies and imagining the 
... Mr Rochester's 'mad' first wife, Bertha, in her classic Victorian novel Jane Eyre.