The Madwoman in the Attic The Madwoman in the Attic 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. The text specifically examines Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson. In the work, Gilbert and Gubar examine the notion that women
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (novel) though her films were unavailable, leading to her jealousy. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (novel) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is an American suspense novel by Henry Farrell published in 1960 by Rinehart & Company. The novel has earned a cult following, and has been adapted for the screen twice - in 1962 and 1991. This gothic story deals with two aging sisters, Jane and Blanche Hudson, who are living alone together in a decaying Hollywood mansion. A former child star of early vaudeville known as "Baby Jane", Jane was spoiled, pampered, and doted upon by her father