This semi-autobiographical short story details how Charlotte Perkins Gilman suffered from postpartum depression and was forced to endure lonely isolation intended to cure hysteria.
Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilmanâs well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving Mountain delivers Gilmanâs program for reforming...
This book contains Charlotte Perkins Gilmanâs first collection of poetry, coupled with almost eighty previously uncollected pieces. A wonderful compendium that is sure to be of interest to keen lovers of poetry, âIn...
This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilmanâs first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilmanâs magazine The Forerunner in 1909â...
Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis by noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Gilman asserts that men created an economic dependence that has prevented women from success...
In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed...
This volume delves intensively into religion and the influence of gender. Gilman suggests that through the development of secular ethics, religion can be directed not to the anticipation of a mythical afterlife, but instead to the transformation of the...
Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and...
A nameless woman is driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion and craving intellectual stimulation, she secretly begins to write. Ordered to her bedroom, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper invades...
The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early...