Six Degrees of Separation ~ Wide Sargasso Sea

 Rhys, Jean
"Wide Sargasso Sea" - 2025

#6Degrees of Separation:
from Wide Sargasso Sea to The Thirteenth Tale 

#6Degrees is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. I love the idea. Thank you, Kate. See more about this challenge, its history, further books and how I found this here. 

The starter book this month is a wildcard. We have to start with the book we finished our December chain with. That was "Wide Sargasso Sea" for me.

That was a lovely book to start with as it is a prequel to Jane Eyre who is a governess. The book was written by Charlotte Brontë whose sister Anne was also an author and who wrote a book about another governess, Agnes Grey. In the novel Emma by Jane Austen, there is the question of Jane Fairfax becoming a governess. The main character in Little Dorrit works as a seamstress to support her family but there is the governess, Mrs. General who is hired by her father after he becomes wealthy. The protagonist in Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp, however, is a governess. In the Thirteenth Tale, the main characters Adeline and Emmeline have a governess again.

Brontë, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" - 1847 

Brontë, Anne "Agnes Grey" - 1847
Austen, Jane "Emma" - 1816 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)

Dickens, Charles "Little Dorrit" - 1857
Thackeray, William Makepeace "Vanity Fair, or, A Novel Without a Hero" - 1848

Setterfield, Diane "The Thirteenth Tale" - 2006

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Easy to get the connection this time, right? They are all about governesses.

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