What does the madwoman in the attic represent?

What does the madwoman in the attic represent? The figure of the mirrored madwoman signifies a strategy authors and poets such as Mary Shelley and Emily Dickinson utilized to represent themselves as split or, more specifically, deploying a “female schizophrenia of authorship.” This approach also prefigures authors such as Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Sylvia … Continue reading What does the madwoman in the attic represent?