Oct 27, 2025
Sandra M. Gilbert
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Sandra M. Gilbert
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August Wrap Up
Well, this month has sucked. And thatâs all I have to say about that.
Books Read: 15
But at least I read a lot. My favorite by far was Babel, and I really donât have a least favorite. There was nothing under 3.5 stars. But seriously, go check out Babel, itâs freaking amazing. Books marked with Ž are rereads.  Â
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth - 5 stars
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985 by Adrienne Rich - 4 stars
New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism by Ann Heilmann - 4 stars
Hard Times by Charles Dickens - 4.5 stars ÂŽ
Lady Windermereâs Fan by Oscar Wilde - 4 stars
The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge - 4 stars
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar - 4 stars
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - 4 stars
Victorian Womenâs Fiction: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual by Shirley Foster - 4 stars
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen by Mary Poovey - 3.5 stars
Kim by Rudyard Kipling - 3 stars
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translatorsâ Revolution by R. F. Kuang - 5 stars
Marcella by Mary Ward - 3.5 stars
Mrs. Warrenâs Profession by George Bernard Shaw - 4 stars Ž
The âImproperâ Feminine: The Womenâs Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing by Lyn Pykett - 4 stars
On Tumblr:
Thereâs some stuff here; mostly tags, but I did participate in the first half or so of the 1K Pages Readathon.
1K Pages Readathon August 2022
July Wrap Up
Book Quotes: Babel by R. F. Kuang
Tagged: Sequel Stack Challenge
Tagged: Pink Book Stack
Tagged: Yellow Book Stack
Reblogged: Queer Fantasy Recommendations
On the Blog:
Hey, look, thereâs something here! What a miracle!
Book Review: Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang
On YouTube:
And thereâs a nice selection here, as usual.
My INSANE August TBR
July Wrap Up - 8 Books for Jane Austen July and Exams!
A Bookish Birthday Haul
Underrated Victorian Recommendations #3
Currently Reading 8/15/22
GarbAugust Trashy Book Tag
"You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Princesses, Trainwrecks and Other Man-Made Women"
Book by Carina Chocano
For all the tides of life that flow within me, I am dumb and ineffectual, when it comes to casting my thought into a form. No old one suites me. If I could invent one, it seems to me the pleasure of creation would make it possible for me to write. . . I love best to be a woman; but womanhood is at present too straitly-bound to give me scope. At hours, I live truly as a woman; at others, I should stifle; as, on the other hand, I should palsy, when I play the artist.
Margaret Fuller, Journal Entry 1810-1850 found in The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
âthe aesthetic cult of ladylike fragility and delicate beautyâno doubt associated with the moral cult of the angel-womanâobliged âgenteelâ women to âkillâ themselves into art objects: slim, pale, passive beings whose âcharmsâ eerily recalled the snowy, porcelain immobility of the dead.
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, âThe Queenâs looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternityâ, in The Madwoman in the Attic
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Sandra Gilbert (b. 1936) is an important feminist literary critic. Her 1979 work The Madwoman in the Attic, co-authored with Susan Gubar, is considered a fundamental text of second-wave feminism.
She obtained a PhD in Literature from Columbia University. She was the President of the Modern Language Association and won numerous prizes and scholarships for her work, such as the American Book Award and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
â[M]any works of allegedly feminist criticism take for granted the political authority of their feminism, and yet offer us works that are politically unintelligible. The Madwoman in the Attic is an example. By grounding femininity upon being, rather than upon social, economic, and historical conditionsâforces in which Gilbert and Gubar appear to take little interestâThe Madwoman in the Attic does not countenance any political solution at all for the situation of women.â
âJulia Prewitt Brown, âThe Feminist Depreciation of Jane Austenâ
*draws hearts*
Iâve cordially disliked The Madwoman in the Attic for years, and I recalled liking Brownâs criticism of it years ago, but this is even better than I remembered :D
(tbh it reminds me of the bell hooks quote I posted thatâs making the rounds)
âArguably, Plath haunts so many of us, chiefly women, because in one way or another we believe that we are her, at least the person she was before she put her head in the oven. We too were brought up to be âgood,â bring home excellent report cards, become sexually alluring, and maybe, maybe, aspire to moreâlike, for instance, Hillary Clinton, who wanted to become the first female president, or Plath herself, who once confided to her journal that she was âthe girl who wanted to be God.âââSandra Gilbert, A Poet of Glamour and Chaos