Charlotte perkins gilman autobiography pdf writer

“I Am Human,” WJ (16 July 1904): 226.

In private correspondence, Judith A. Allen has suggested that this decision to use “Charlotte” implies not only a condescending familiarity, it also lacks the deference extended to figures like Ward (I do not call him “Lester,” in other words). Ward, however, only went by one surname his whole life as opposed to Charlotte’s three; nor do I have any need in these pages to distinguish Ward from his first and second spouses. So while I take Allen’s point, I still feel “Charlotte” is the least confusing way to refer to her throughout.

Howells, qtd. in CPS to GECS, 9 July 1892, GECSP, SL; West, qtd. in CPG to GECS, 26 May 1924, mf-6, SL; Wells, qtd. in Black, “The Woman,” 39; Catt, New York Times (20 August 1935): 44. Thanks to Shelley Fisher Fishkin for helping me to refine my thoughts about the anomalous status of “The Yellow Wall-Paper.”

CPS to KSC, 2 May 1933, folder 10, SL; CPS to KSC, 29 June 1929, folder

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An Autobiography
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction by Ann J. Lane
Foreword bygd Zona Gale



“As years passed and continuous writing and speaking developed the various lines of thought inom was following, my work grew in importance but lost in market value. . . . Theodore Dreiser looked gloomily at me over his desk and said: ‘You should consider more what the editors want.’ Of course I should have. . . but if one writes to express important truths, needed yet unpopular, the marknad is necessarily limited.”
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1869–1935) was one of the leading intellectuals of the American women’s movement in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the struggle for suffrage, Gilman confronted an even larger problem—economic and social discrimination against women. Her book, Women and Economics, published in 1898, was repeatedly printed and translated into sju languages. She

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The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
An Autobiography

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1935

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