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.
Sandra M. Gilbert
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