Biographer Ann J. Lane
asserts that, despite the obvious flaws in CPG
's work, her legacy is both rich and unquestionable: Lane maintains that Gilman set out to forge a new world-view, a social philosophy...
Literary responses
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Philosophers Jane Martin
and Evelyn Fox Keller
have critiqued this book's lack of intense feeling, something that perhaps reflects CPG
's desire to dissociate women from emotionalism. Ann J. Lane
noted that Herland constitutes CPG
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
She became and remained particularly close to Martha Luther
, with whom she attained her first deep personal happiness.
Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Twayne Publishers.
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She wrote to Luther in 1881 to demand: why in the name of heaven have...
Cultural formation
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Scholars such as Ann J. Lane
have argued that although CPG
was twice married her true, unacknowledged sexual orientation was lesbian.
Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond. Pantheon Books.