Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film) Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film) Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name, directed by John Duigan and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. The novel and film explore Jean Rhys's account of the West Indian Creole heiress, here called Antoinette Cosway, married by an Englishman similar to the character "Mr. Rochester", who becomes his "madwoman in the attic" featured in the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. For a full-length summary see: plot summary of "Wide Sargasso Sea". Fine Line Features released the film for the United States market.
Shire of Lowood Shire of Lowood The Shire of Lowood is a former local government area in the south-east of Queensland, Australia. It existed between 1912 and 1916. From around 1890, increasing settlement in and around the town of Lowood resulted in ongoing agitation to establish a new shire. An alternative proposal was to relocate the office of the Shire of Walloon away from Marburg and into Lowood on the grounds that the majority of the population of the Shire of Walloon used Lowood as their market town and that Lowood had the advantage of being on the railway line (which Marburg was