Charlotte Perkins Gilman

							Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Famous female writer of the
American Romantic period.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

   She was born in Hartford
    Connecticut on July 3, 1860 and
    died in Pasadena California on
    August 17, 1935.
Gilman’s emphasis on women’s rights

   Much of her work focused on women’s
    rights and the oppressed environment
    that existed for women during her
    lifetime. “Perkins herself states she
    became increasing aware of the injustices
    inflicted on women.”
   http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/5535/models
    /2003/projects/p03swenson.htm
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“The Yellow Wallpaper”

   Her famous short story about a
    women confined to a bedroom in
    her summer home. The story
    symbolizes her struggle to escape
    domestic duties and a confining
    home life. http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper
Achievements
    In 1933 she was named the “sixth most
    influential women of the twentieth
    century in a pole commissioned by the
    Siena Research Institute. In 1994, she
    was inducted into the National Women’s
    Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.”
   http://web.cortland.edu/gilman/AboutCPG.htm
“Women and Economics”

   In 1898, she published her most
    well know book, Women and
    Economics. This book was
    translated into several languages
    and brought her worldwide acclaim.
   http://web.cortlan.edu/gilman/AboutCPG.htm
Gilman was a prolific writer
   From 1909 to 1916 Gilman wrote a
    feminist paper called The Forerunner. The
    magazine had 1500 subscribers.
   http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gilman.htm
   “Gilman wrote more than one thousand
    works of non-fiction, including articles,
    essays, book reviews, and lectures.”[1]
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman
Gilman’s quotations:
   And women should stand beside man as the
    comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
   In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more
    so than the Americans.
   Until ‘mothers’ earn their living, ‘women’ will not.
   There is no female mind. The brain is not an
    organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female
    liver.
   Love grows by service
   To be surrounded by beautiful things has much
    influence upon the human creature: to make
    beautiful things has more.
   http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/c_p_gilman.htm
The end of Gilman’s life
   The following quotation by Gilman confers
    her position on euthanasia: When one is
    assured of unavoidable and imminent
    death, it is the simplest of human rights
    to choose a quick and easy death in place
    of a slow and horrible one.
   “An advocate of euthanasia,” she ended
    her life on August 17, 1935 by taking an
    overdose of chloroform.
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    http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gilman.htm
Gilman’s other work

   A complete list of Gilman’s works
    may be found at:
   http://www.reference.com/search?q=charlotte%20perkins%20gilman