hello!
name: Ash
age: 21
favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness? Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, The Bronte Sisters.
favorite books on madness? The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
favorite films which document or hint at "women & madness"? Girl, Interrupted ...for some reason I can't think of anymore then that right now!
favorite quote, or line from one of the authors/poets/books/film stated above?
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead, I think I made you up inside my head -"Mad Girl's Love" Song by Plath
The whole poem "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton is brilliant.
do you have personal experiences which have been touched on in this community?
Not so far, I just like the idea of women and madness, because it is so true. The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. I'm in the middle of this book right now; it's so good and it talks about just this issue.
age: 21
favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness? Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, The Bronte Sisters.
favorite books on madness? The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
favorite films which document or hint at "women & madness"? Girl, Interrupted ...for some reason I can't think of anymore then that right now!
favorite quote, or line from one of the authors/poets/books/film stated above?
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead, I think I made you up inside my head -"Mad Girl's Love" Song by Plath
The whole poem "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton is brilliant.
do you have personal experiences which have been touched on in this community?
Not so far, I just like the idea of women and madness, because it is so true. The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. I'm in the middle of this book right now; it's so good and it talks about just this issue.