The Madwoman in the Attic

The Madwoman in the Attic
AuthorSandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
LanguageEnglish
SubjectVictorian literature
Publication date
1979
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which they examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective. Gilbert and Gubar draw their title from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, in which Rochester's wife (née Bertha Mason) is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband.