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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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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...
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 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...

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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.