Anne Sexton: The Artist and Her Critics by J.D. McClatchy. First Edition, first printing, 1978. Review copy. From the collection of Sandra M. Gilbert with her review label on the dust jacket and her signature on the front page.
Sandra M. Gilbert (1936–2024) was a distinguished American literary critic, poet, and feminist scholar best known for co-authoring the foundational feminist text The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) with Susan Gubar. She was a professor emerita at UC Davis and served as president of the Modern Language Association.
