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1936-12-27

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female

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New York, New York, USA

Berkeley, California, USA

Paris, France

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Cornell University (BA ∙ 1957)

New York University (MA ∙ 1961)

Columbia University (PhD ∙ 1968)

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Gilbert, Elliot Lewis (spouse)

Gale, David (partner)

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Modern Language Association of America (executive council, 1981-84; nominating committee, 1985-87; second vice president, first vice president, president, 1994-96), D.H. Lawrence Society (executive council ∙ 1981-84 ∙ nominating committee ∙ 1985-87 ∙ second vice president ∙ first vice president ∙ president ∙ 1994-96)

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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1980- 81)

Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, Poetry Magazine (1980)

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1982)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1983)

"People Who Made a Difference" designation (1980 ∙ 1982 ∙ 1983 ∙ with Susan Gubar ∙ with Susan Gubar ∙ with Karl Shapiro)

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Author of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

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