madwoman
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‘Mommie Dearest’ Mimosa Mother’s Day’ Faye Dunaway plays screen legend Joan Crawford as a wire hanger-wielding madwoman in this campy 1981 bio-drama based on the scandalous tell-all by Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2022
Biographer Judith Thurman, writing in the New Yorker in 2001, called Dr. Milford’s biography “one of the big literary events of the feminist new wave — the first liberation of a madwoman from the attic.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022
"My sister, my hilarious, charming, perfect sister: now other. The irate madwoman on the train," Leddy says.
From Fox News • Mar. 28, 2022
Is Claire delusional, “the madwoman in the attic”? And will the marvelous Sloan Wilson come back to fix more broken souls?
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2020
And in the quiet of the Tower, far above the grimy fog of the town, the madwoman sensed things that she never could have sensed before her years there.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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