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, 1990.
294, 304-5
On the other hand neither Judith A. Allen
nor Cynthia J. Davis
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Stetson (later Gilman) suffered from postpartum depression. She wrote in her autobiography that after her daughter's birth she felt only pain . . . even motherhood brought no joy.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. Arno Press, 1972.
91-2
Cynthia J. Davis
points...
Literary responses
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Among recent scholars, Cynthia J. Davis
has marked the significance of CPG
's poetry in her oeuvre, while Catherine J. Golden
, noted that In This Our World served both to establish her audience and...
Literary responses
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Biographer Cynthia J. Davis
writes that her deepest longings, griefs, and visionsare expressed in an intense, often painfully honest, voice.
Knight, Louise W. “Gilmania”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
27
, No. 6, Nov.–Dec. 2010, pp. 29-31.
Reception
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wall-Paper, Women and Economics, and Herland all feature prominently in North American curricula, and also attract ongoing scholarly inquiry.
Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond. Pantheon Books, 1990.
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Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. “Reading Gilman in the Twenty-First Century”. The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Catherine J. Golden and Joanna Schneider Zangrando, Associated University Presses, 2000, pp. 209-20.
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Judith A. Allen
's The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman...