Sandra M. Gilbert (Author of The Madwoman in the Attic)

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Sandra M. Gilbert

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December 27, 1936

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November 10, 2024

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Sandra M. Gilbert was an American literary critic and poet who published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. She was best known for her collaborative critical work with Susan Gubar, with whom she co-authored, among other works, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979). Madwoman in the Attic is widely recognized as a text central to second-wave feminism. She was Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis.
Gilbert lived in Berkeley, California, and lived, until 2008, in Paris, France. Her husband, Elliot L. Gilbert, was chair of the Department of English at University of California, Davis, until his death in 1991. She also had a long-term relationship with David Gale, ...more

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	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar 4.21 avg rating — 4,043 ratings — published 1979 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English by Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Susan Gubar (Editor), Isak Dinesen, Anne Spencer (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Vol. 2 by Sandra M. Gilbert (editor), Susan Gubar (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Volume 1 by Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Susan Gubar (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar 3.94 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve: A Cultural Study 3.52 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The War of the Words by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar 3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies 4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wrongful Death: A Memoir (Norton Paperback) 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (3 books)
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No Man's Land (3 books)
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“A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story, while a life of female rebellion, of 'significant action,' is a life that must be silenced, a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story.”
― Sandra M. Gilbert, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

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“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly.”
― Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar

tags: sin, women

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“Why write wrong if the writing won鈥檛 right the wrong? (90)”
― Sandra M. Gilbert, Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve: A Cultural Study

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