Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman as a child, 1868
Gilman (right) with her daughter, Katherine Beecher Stetson, c. 1897
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston (c. 1900)
Portrait of Gilman at age 24, c. 1884
The Yellow Wallpaper, one of Gilman's most popular works, originally published in 1892, before her marriage to George Houghton Gilman.
1913 issue of The Forerunner
Articles about feminism by Gilman and a photo of her as printed in the Atlanta Constitution, December 10, 1916Awards 2
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. Gilman is best known for the semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), based on her experience with postpartum depression, her manifesto calling for women's economic independence, Women and Economics (1898), and the utopian feminist novel, Herland (1915). She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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