Bertha is the obstacle keeping Jane Eyre from marrying Rochester, and she is the madwoman in the attic whom the trope is named after.
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I personally had no trouble running Ethernet under the crawl space of my old one-story house, though my current two-story house required some compromises thanks to its slab foundation and lack of attic access for half the house.
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Stay on top of clutter in your kitchen, pantry, bathroom, attic, and other areas in your home with the GranRosi farmhouse style metal basket pair.
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It opens with Brumotti, 40, in the attic bedroom of his parents’ home in the seaside region of Liguria, where most citizens, like the rest of the country, are under emergency lockdown.
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A part of this had to do with how Romans and especially their Praetorian Guard was depicted with the stylized Attic helmet variant with engravings and plumes.
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She would periodically show up at the house and stay in the attic, where she hung beads and burned incense.
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My bedroom was square and yellow and brand-new; this one was an attic with a gray-blue wall curling into its ceiling.
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It might be on a closet shelf or perhaps in the attic, wrapped tightly in thick twine.
The Timeless Beauty of Baseball|Mike Barnicle|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It comes out of the drawer, the attic, the trunk of your car with the first tease of spring.
The Timeless Beauty of Baseball|Mike Barnicle|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Remember when “the madwoman in the attic” was more than just a metaphor for the female imagination?
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It was only an attic, but I think almost any little boy would have thought it a nice room.
Four Winds Farm|Mrs. Molesworth
Then began the story of the first night at Wildwoods when Nora was determined to sleep in the attic.
The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge|Lilian Garis
We may rightfully be reproached also with a somewhat Attic lightness, a lack of perseverance and of seriousness.
The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study|Jean-Marie Guyau
In Ionian and early Attic sculpture women appear closely wrapped up in drapery.
The Legacy of Greece|Various
The one big room he took for a library and laboratory, the other for dining room and parlor; the attic he fixed up for a bedroom.
On the Seaboard|August Strindberg
British Dictionary definitions for attic (1 of 2)
attic
/ (ˈætɪk) /
noun
a space or room within the roof of a house
architecta storey or low wall above the cornice of a classical façade
Word Origin for attic
C18: special use of Attic from the use of Attic-style pilasters to adorn the façade of the top storey
British Dictionary definitions for attic (2 of 2)
Attic
/ (ˈætɪk) /
adjective
of or relating to Attica, its inhabitants, or the dialect of Greek spoken there, esp in classical times
(often not capital)classically elegant, simple, or purean Attic style
noun
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Athens: the chief literary dialect of classical GreekSee also Aeolic, Arcadic, Doric, Ionic