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The Wild Wild West End Girl
Lily Allen and the danger of misbehaving by Cara Ballingall “I often wonder who I am and where is my country and where do I belong and why was I ever born at all.” Woman in a Riding Habit (L'Amazone) by Gustave Courbet from the met archives So says Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys’ The Wide Sargasso Sea, a novel that proposes the origin story for Bertha Mason, Mr Rochester’s madwoman wife in the attic in Jane Eyre, and, in doing so, opens up a voice against a status quo that se
Cara Ballingall
Dec 25, 2025
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