Sandra M. Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert is the author of nine books of poetry and of Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions. With Susan Gubar, she wrote The Madwoman in the Attic and Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1950-2020.

The Interdisciplinarian 

Evelyn Fox Keller has spent a lifetime in different scientific fields, while managing to shatter a glass ceiling or two

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday, September 05, 2023

She Was the Toast of the World

The dramas and diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Joan Didion and the Magic of Grief

She went from cool customer to recorder of her own bereavement

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday, January 03, 2022

Black Turtlenecks, Hoop Earrings

Unruly girl-poets in the '50s

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday, August 12, 2021

The Madman in the Mansion

Where he comes from and why he must be unseated

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday, January 14, 2021

A Poet in Purgatory

An inside look at a literary marriage that ended in disaster

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Feminism's First Think Tank

The very different women of the Radcliffe Institute’s inaugural class

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Barber of Language

A new collection from a celebrated prose stylist

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday, December 02, 2019

In the Labyrinth of #MeToo

Addressing sexual aggression and power in contemporary society also means questioning what the feminist movement has really been about

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday, June 04, 2018

List, List, O List!

A Response to David Handlin’s “One Hundred Best American Novels”

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday, August 14, 2014

A Poet of Glamour and Chaos

Lady Lazarus rises again

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday, October 12, 2017

A Life Written in Invisible Ink

In her rebellious and much-celebrated poetry, Adrienne Rich both deciphered and created the feminist world she inhabited

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Four Poems

Delicious poems from the paintings of four masters

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday, December 07, 2015

Feast Your Eyes on This

What does the flurry for recent food movies say about our obsessions with all things culinary?

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Casserole Inquisition

Chronicles from America’s culinary transformation

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Saturday, December 01, 2007

The Whirling Princess

How a little rich girl known as Pussy Jones became Edith Wharton, writing her way into the aristocracy of American letters

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Friday, June 01, 2007

Circular Bread Line

by Sandra M. Gilbert | Sunday, March 01, 2009