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Sandra M. Gilbert is the author of numerous volumes of criticism and poetry, as well as a memoir. She is coeditor (with Susan Gubar) of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. A Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis, she lives in Berkeley, California.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 2,593 ratings · 214 reviews · 43 distinct works

	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar 4.18 avg rating — 799 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology Of Literature By Women: The Traditions In English 4.36 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Vol. 2 by Sandra M. Gilbert (editor), Susan Gubar (editor) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Vol. 1 by Sandra M. Gilbert (editor), Susan Gubar (editor) 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Inventions of Farewell: A Collection of Elegies 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The War of the Words by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wrongful Death: A Memoir 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)”
― Sandra M. Gilbert, Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve

tags: grief , grieving , writing

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“If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)”
― Sandra M. Gilbert, Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve

tags: death , death-and-dying , dying

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“. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now, as I retell the tale, I realize that ‘I am still at the same subject’ still engaged in the same fearful and fierce activity–writing and seeking to right a mortal wrong. (86-87)”
― Sandra M. Gilbert, Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve

tags: death , dying , grief , grieving , mourning , right , writing , wrong

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