Rhys gave the "madwoman in the attic" from Jane Eyre her name, her history, and her fire. Published in 1966, this postcolonial rewriting of Charlotte Bronte traces Bertha Rochester back to the Caribbean, to a Creole heiress named Antoinette. The result dismantles the original novel's assumptions about race, empire, and who gets to tell the story.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.