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Sandra Gilbert

  • D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-30 by David Ellis

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Sandra Gilbert teaches English at the University of California, Davis. The Madwoman in the Attic, which she wrote with Susan Gubar, came out in 1979. Acts of Attention: The Poems of D.H.Lawrence and Wrongful Death: A Memoir came out in 1990 and 1995.

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