This text is such a classic, you can't not read it—just keep in mind that you should take it with a healthy dose of postcolonial scholarship on the side.
Aside from evil queens and beautiful princesses and all the fairy tale characters in between, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar are also really interested in caves. Are they just spelunking fanatics? Or what other reason could there be for that?
Most of the women writers that get talked about here are from the 19th century, or the early 20th. Do the Madwoman's arguments still hold up for women writing today?