Sandra M. Gilbert
edited a posthuous volume of AR
's Essential Essays. Its contents include Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Split at the Root (about her Jewishness and her father's drive to assimilation)...
Textual Features
Hélène Cixous
The book is divided into three parts: The Guilty One, written by Clément, Sorties, written by Cixous, and Exchange, a collaboration between both authors. Sandra Gilbert
describes Sorties as an apocalyptic vision...
Reception
Ruth Pitter
During her lifetime RP
was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis
scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press
in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations...
Publishing
Frances Hodgson Burnett
This novel (whose working title was Mistress Mary) was written entirely in the USA. FHB
had finished or nearly finished it by April this year, but since she was near her family while writing...
Occupation
John Milton
Their project has been taken up again in the later twentieth century by such critics as Sandra M. Gilbert
(in Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 93...
This book brought an avalanche of invitations to read her work.
Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin.
385
AS
was not surprised at what she called the uniformly poor reviews, having become inured to this kind of reception.
Sexton, Anne. A Self-Portrait in Letters. Editors Sexton, Linda Gray and Lois Ames, Houghton Mifflin.
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Some, however...
Literary responses
Emma Tennant
Critic Sandra M. Gilbert
describes this and some of ET
's other fiction as vaguely feminist.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 6, pp. 1-4.
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Literary responses
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB
's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an...
Literary responses
Emma Tennant
Reviewer Sandra M. Gilbert
called Tennant a practiced and practicing sensationalist, accuses her of cashing in on the public fascination with Plath, and characterises her style in this book as purple prose and blues-ballad voyeurism...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The poem is extensively discussed by Sandra M. Gilbert
and Susan Gubar
in The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) as a study in self-alienation. They argue that although the speaker remains a voiceless prisoner of...
Literary responses
George Eliot
As one of the few canonized women writers of the nineteenth century, she has been of great interest to feminist critics, in part because in the words of Elizabeth Langland
, they became cathected to...
Literary responses
Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE
was viewed with ambivalence by a later generation of critics who sought to reclaim women's literature. Sandra Gilbert
and Susan Gubar
, for example, read Ellis as a willing captive in a separate sphere...
Literary responses
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Canonization of The Yellow Wall-Paper began in the early 1970s, within the context of second-wave feminism, and the edition issued by the Feminist Press
in 1973. Feminist readings became the first to make the connection...
Timeline
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Texts
Gilbert, Sandra M. “Dead poet’s society”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 6, pp. 1-4.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Risorgimento”. PMLA, Vol.
99
, No. 2, pp. 194-11.
Gilbert, Sandra M. et al. “Introduction: A Tarantella of Theory”. The Newly Born Woman, translated by. Betsy Wing and Betsy Wing, University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, 1988.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale University Press, 1984.