Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Perkins (formerly Mary Fitch Westcott) and Frederic Beecher Perkins. She had only one brother, Thomas Adie, who was fourteen months older, because a physician advised Mary Perkins that she might die if she bore other children. During Charlotte's infancy, her father moved out and abandoned his wife and children, leaving them in an impoverished state. Gilman was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.

  • When was
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman born?

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on Tuesday, July 3, 1860

  • Where was
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman born?

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

  • How old was
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman when they died?

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was 75

  • When did Charlotte Perkins Gilman die?

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman died on
    Saturday, August 17, 1935


Best Quotes

  • To the young man confronting life the world lies wide. Such powers as he had he may use, must use.... What he wants to be, he may strive to be...
  • ... as women become free, economic, social factors, so becomes possible the full social combination of individuals in collective industry. Wit...
  • The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
  • The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
  • In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

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