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Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87 A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.

When I was a teenager I asked the Barnes & Noble employee where the “books about books” were. I got Madwoman in the Attic, which completely validated my anger at Rochester when everyone called the novel romantic. G & G made lit crit a place of possibility for me.
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