Gilbert, Sandra M. (1936–)
Gilbert, Sandra M. (1936–)
American poet and literary critic. Born Dec 27, 1936, in New York, NY; Cornell University, BA; New York University, MA, 1961; Columbia University, PhD, 1968; m. Elliot Gilbert, 1957 (died 1991).
Major feminist critic, taught at several American universities and became professor at University of California, Davis (1989); poetry includes In the Fourth World (1979), The Summer Kitchen (1983), Emily's Bread (1984), and Poems in Blood Pressure (1988); wrote several works with Susan Gubar including The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century (1979), and No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (2 vols, 1988, 1989); with Gubar, edited Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets (1979), The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: the Tradition in English (1985), and The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic (1986).
See also memoir Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy (1995), about the death of her husband.