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Sandra Gilbert

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American literary critic and poet

United StatesWritersLived 1936 to 2024 · aged 87
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Sandra Mortola Gilbert was an American literary critic and poet who published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism.

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2017honorary doctor of Harvard University
2012Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
2001American Book Awards
1982Guggenheim Fellowship

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Sandra Mortola 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.

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Lived 1936 to 2024 · aged 87
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