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
Literary responses Mary Fortune
To critic Andrew ManghamThe White Maniac examplifies a Victorian fascination with the potential for violence and irrationality in female adolescents, and detection as sustain[ing] a number of social hierarchies through the actual and figurative...
Intertextuality and Influence Olive Schreiner
To Vera Brittain and some of her contemporaries, Women and Labour was the Bible of the Women's Movement. It influenced the writings of many early-twentieth-century feminists, including historian Alice Clark and suffragette Constance Lytton
Intertextuality and Influence Dora Marsden
In the course of getting the journal off the ground, Marsden also contacted Katherine Mansfield , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Charlotte Payne-Townshend , Arnold Bennett , and Theodore Dreiser . (Payne-Townshend, wife of G. B. Shaw
Health Elizabeth Robins
The rest cure had been a popular treatment for neurasthenia in Britain since the 1880s. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's 1891 story, The Yellow Wallpaper, exposes the cure's damaging psychological effects on women. Like Gilman...
Friends, Associates E. Nesbit
Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw (with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb , Sydney Olivier , Annie Besant , Eleanor Marx ,...
Friends, Associates Mona Caird
She met Arthur Symons in June 1889, and in the following month Thomas Hardy carefully arranged to sit between her and Rosamund Marriott Watson (and opposite F. Mabel Robinson ) at a dinner of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Beecher Stowe
Among the descendants of HBS are writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Nancy Hale .
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.
Education Gertrude Stein
At this time, GS came into contact with an old friend, Claribel Cone , a physician who continued to take courses at Johns Hopkins . Claribel asked Gertrude to give a lecture about the advantage...

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Texts

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Unpunished. Editors Golden, Catherine J. and Denise D. Knight, The Feminist Press, 1997.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. What Diantha Did. Charlton Co., 1910.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. What Diantha Did. Duke University Press, 2005.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics. T. F. Unwin, 1898.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, and Michael Kimmel. Women and Economics. Editor Aronson, Amy, University of California Press, 1998.