Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Standard Name: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Birth Name: Charlotte Anna Perkins
Married Name: Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Self-constructed Name: C. P. Stetson
CPG , a prolific early twentieth-century American writer and feminist social critic, published satirical poems and nationalist verse, newspaper articles, short stories, serialized novels, and a vast amount of non-fiction. She was unapologetically didactic, and advocated for women's liberation from domestic service in order to better society. Her writing, and in particular her short story The Yellow Wall-Paper, became a touchstone for second-wave feminism in the United States.
Black and white photograph of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, shown in profile, from the torso up, with one hand resting on a fur wrap. She wears a dark jacket over a white shirt and her wavy hair is done in a loose bun.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Edith Craig
The EC archives are housed at the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum at Tenterden in Kent. The collection includes prompt copies of plays by Paul Claudel and Charlotte Perkins Gilman .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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UCLA also holds...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
The title piece first appeared in the Contemporary Review in July 1898. It was reprinted in Andrea Broomfield 's and Sally Mitchell 's Prose by Victorian Women, 1996.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland.
711-29
The remarkable feminist essay entitled...
Textual Production Mona Caird
MC 's A Romance of the Moors (stories, published at Bristol) included The Yellow Drawing-Room (written 1890, the year that Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, which began to appear only in January 1892).
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
295, 305n2
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Tillie Olsen
TO , who remained much in demand as a speaker until almost the end of her life, gave a keynote address at a conference on Charlotte Perkins Gilman .
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
329
Textual Production Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL 's later suffragist pamphlets include The Faith that is in Us (undated), Does a Man Support his Wife? (1911, co-written with Charlotte Perkins Gilman ), English Militant Methods and In Women's Shoes (both 1913),...
Textual Production Mona Caird
Scholar Ann Heilmann points out that this article significantly predated a series of commentaries of similar cast by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Cicely Hamilton , Olive Schreiner , and Elizabeth Robins , which emerged over...
Textual Features May Kendall
Her poems deal sceptically with contemporary issues, and often take a didactic form, where the first-person speaker, usually male, usually self-satisfied, is undercut by a criticizing other, often of a lower status.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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The...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
In The Economic Parasitism of WomenVL argues that women's socially-produced dependence on men has caused them to degenerate mentally and physically. She opens with an ironically-inflected confession of her own previous resistance to militant...
Textual Features Kathleen Caffyn
Critic Stephanie Forward has pointed out that at this date the colour yellow signified avant-garde and slightly dangerous fashion, as had been recognised in such literary works as Mona Caird 's The Yellow Drawing-Room and...
Reception Sarah Orne Jewett
The Feminist Companion describes the novel as her masterpiece; realistic in style and innovative in form, it pursues the matriarchal theme explored in much of her work.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The central character, a harried female writer, comes...
politics Mary Gawthorpe
It was apparently MG who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge.
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politics Vernon Lee
Vineta Colby describes VL 's politics as liberal with socialist leanings.
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Lee disagreed with the Liberal government's refusal to grant women the vote: she supported suffrage but disapproved of militancy.
Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press.
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Her views on...
politics Constance Lytton
CL was conscious of gender issues long before she became a supporter of the women's movement or a suffragist. In 1893 she described herself as so giddy with anger against several groups of her own...
Literary Setting Florence Dixie
Her biographer Brian Roberts calls this novel rambling and semi-mystical.
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton.
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It includes another feminist utopia in the inset story of Loveland, some of whose elements are parallelled in Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's Herland...
Literary responses Jane Hume Clapperton
Responses to Clapperton's paper were mixed. Miss E. A. (or Ellen) Barnett suggested that the Utopia that Clapperton proposed would not work. She gave the example of a group of backward individuals who had tried...

Timeline

1873: American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell...

Building item

1873

American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell developed a controversial treatment programme for neurasthenia.

1883: English obstetrics professor W. S. Playfair...

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1883

English obstetrics professor W. S. Playfair advocated the rest cure in The Systematic Treatment of Nerve Prostration and Hysteria.

15-21 June 1913: The Congress of the International Women's...

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15-21 June 1913

The Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance was held at Budapest in Hungary.

Texts

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Benigna Machiavelli</span&gt”;. Forerunner, Vol.
5
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Herland</span&gt”;. Forerunner, Vol.
6
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Mag-Marjorie</span&gt”;. Forerunner, Vol.
3
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>With Her in Ourland</span&gt”;. Forerunner, Vol.
7
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>With Her in Ourland</span&gt”;. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Utopian Novels, edited by Minna Doskow, Associated University Presses, 1999.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Won Over</span&gt”;. Forerunner, Vol.
4
, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Afterword”. Unpunished, edited by Denise D. Knight and Catherine J. Golden, The Feminist Press, 1997.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Concerning Children. Small, Maynard & Co., 1900.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, editor. Forerunner. Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland. Pantheon Books, 1979.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers. Century Co., 1923.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “In Duty Bound”. Woman’s Journal, No. 15, Woman’s Journal, p. 14.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. In This Our World. McCombs & Vaughn, 1893.
Shulman, Robert, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “Introduction”. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. vii - xxxii.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Moving the Mountain. Charlton Co., 1911.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Moving the Mountain”. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Utopian Novels, edited by Minna Doskow, Associated University Presses, 1999, pp. 37-149.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Similar Cases”. Nationalist, Vol.
2
, Nationalist.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Crux. Charlton Co., 1911.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. An Autobiography. Editor Lane, Ann J., University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. Editor Gale, Zona, Appleton-Century, 1935.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. Arno Press, 1972.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture. Charlton & Co., 1911.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture. Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wall-Paper”. The New England Magazine, Vol.
11
, No. 5, pp. 647-56.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, and Robert Shulman. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Oxford University Press, 1995.