Sandra Gilbert

Notably, they were jointly named Ms. magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1986 for their work as head editors of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English.[12] Gilbert and Gubar extend this male-oriented model to incorporate a female "Anxiety of Authorship",[13] whereby lack of predecessors makes the very act of writing problematic.[16] However, these models too may be "infected" with a lack of confidence, and with internal contradiction of ambition, hampered by the culturally induced assumption of "the patriarchal authority of art.Her husband, Elliot L. Gilbert, with whom she had three children, was chair of the Department of English at University of California, Davis, until his death from surgical complications in 1991.[4] On November 10, 2024, Gilbert died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, California, at the age of 87.
Berkeley, CaliforniaCornell UniversityNew York UniversityColumbia UniversityFeminist literary criticismThe Madwoman in the AtticDavid Galeliterary criticfeminist theorypsychoanalytic criticismSusan Gubarsecond-wave feminismUniversity of California, DavisJackson Heights, QueensEnglish literatureCalifornia State University, HaywardWilliams CollegeJohns Hopkins UniversityStanford UniversityIndiana UniversityPrinceton UniversityThe New York TimesEmory ElliottValerie SmithMargaret DoodyThomas McFarlandSan Jose State Universityanxiety of influenceHarold BloomVirginia Woolfdouble bindSylvia Plathmedical malpracticeUniversity of California, Berkeleychronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseAlta Bates Summit Medical CenterUniversity of Alabama PressToril Moi