madwoman

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In 1967, there were starring roles in Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and opposite Katherine Hepburn in a satirical comedy called The Madwoman of Chaillot.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

But in the last few years I have realized something: The main character of this novel isn't Jane, but Bertha; the woman who we call "The Madwoman in the Attic."

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2021

During the week I saw him in “Timon,” Mr. Spencer-Davis, in his seventh Stratford season, was also performing in “The Changeling” and rehearsing “The Madwoman of Chaillot.”

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2017

Madwomen is a reference to the feminist text, “The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and The Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2017

Certainly, the Gentleman’s Objection against the Persecution that Pamela suffers from lady Davers, in respect to the Relation this Madwoman bears to the Brother, is the rashest of All his Advices!

From Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela by Baker, Sheridan Warner