In the novel 'Jane Eyre,' what is the name of the 'madwoman in the attic' who is revealed to be Edward Rochester's first wife?
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Bertha Mason
Bertha Mason's story was famously reimagined from her own perspective in Jean Rhys's 1966 postcolonial novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'
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