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Bio

Sandra M. Gilbert (1936-2024) Critic, scholar, poet. Sandra M. Gilbert was born in New York City and died in Berkeley, California.

Full Name

Sandra Mortola Gilbert

Locations

New YorkQueensTompkins

Author's Timeline


1936

Birth

Sandra M. Gilbert was born Sandra Ellen Mortola in New York City on December 27, 1936.

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Residence

Queens County: As a child, Ms. Gilbert lived in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

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Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Gilbert attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan, New York.

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Other Life Event

Tompkins County: Ms. Gilbert received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Gilbert received a master’s degree in English literature from New York University.

1968

Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Gilbert received a Ph. D. in English literature from Columbia University in 1968.

1979

Literary Work

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Yale University Press
0300022867 / 978-0300022865
Nonfiction written with Susan Gubar.

1985

Literary Work

The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
0393953912 / 978-0393953916
Nonfiction edited with Susan Gubar.

1987

Literary Work

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 1: The War of the Words
Yale University Press
Nonfiction written with Susan Gubar.

1991

Literary Work

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: Sexchanges
Yale University Press
0300050259 / 978-0300050257
Nonfiction written with Susan Gubar.

1994

Literary Work

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Letters from the Front
Yale University Press
Nonfiction written with Susan Gubar.

1995

Literary Work

Masterpiece Theatre: An Academic Melodrama
Rutgers University Press
0813521823 / 978-0813521824
Play written with Susan Gubar.

1995

Literary Work

Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
0393037215 / 978-0393037210
Memoir.

2011

Literary Work

Aftermath
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
0393081125 / 978-0393081121
Poetry.

2018

Literary Work

Judgment Day
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
0393356329 / 978-0393356328
Poetry.

2021

Literary Work

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
0393651711 / 978-0393651713
Nonfiction written with Susan Gubar.

2024

Death

Sandra M. Gilbert died in a hospital in Berkeley, California, on November 10, 2024.

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