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 5, 2023

She Was the Toast of the World

The dramas and diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday June 1, 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 3, 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

Feminism’s First Think Tank

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

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday May 27, 2020
Lydia Davis

The Barber of Language

A new collection from a celebrated prose stylist

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday December 2, 2019

A Poet in Purgatory

An inside look at a literary marriage that ended in disaster

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday September 4, 2018

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 4, 2018

A Poet of Glamour and Chaos

Lady Lazarus rises again

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday October 12, 2017

The Interdisciplinarian

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday September 5, 2023

Black Turtlenecks, Hoop Earrings

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday August 12, 2021

The Madman in the Mansion

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday January 14, 2021

Feminism’s First Think Tank

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Wednesday May 27, 2020
Lydia Davis

The Barber of Language

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday December 2, 2019

A Poet in Purgatory

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Tuesday September 4, 2018

A Poet of Glamour and Chaos

By Sandra M. Gilbert | Thursday October 12, 2017

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