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She is a madwoman on the dance floor.
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Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, with its haunted female narrator and madwoman in the attic, retroactively fits this brief.
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
Next up is Pagli, a madwoman with a thin, charred body, fiendish laugh, and ghoulish shrieks.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
True, Ophelia does go mad in the play, and Swift has already expressed her fondness for madwomen.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Firestone’s transformation from an activist who had bravely and lucidly critiqued her world into a suffering madwoman who could not understand it or function in it has haunted the second wave.
—Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
Next up is Pagli, a madwoman with a thin, charred body, fiendish laugh, and ghoulish shrieks.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
True, Ophelia does go mad in the play, and Swift has already expressed her fondness for madwomen.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Firestone’s transformation from an activist who had bravely and lucidly critiqued her world into a suffering madwoman who could not understand it or function in it has haunted the second wave.
—Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Madwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madwoman. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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madwoman
noun
mad·wom·an
ˈmad-ˌwu̇m-ən 
: a woman who is or who acts as if mentally unsound
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