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'''Charlotte Perkins Gilman''' was a first-wave feminist and the author of the fantastic utopian novel [[Herland]], as well as the germinal short story "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]".
'''Charlotte Perkins Gilman''' ([[1860]]-[[1935]]) was a pioneering American feminist and the author of dramas, dialogues, poetry, nearly two hundred short stories and several novels. Her nonfiction work covered the subjects of economics, education, religion, women's rights, and much more.


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She is best known for the fantastic utopian novel ''[[Herland]]'' and for the germinal short story "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]", which only form a minuscule sample of her work, but feminist efforts have brought some of her other writings back into print.
 
 
== Bibliography ==
 
=== Fiction ===
* ''What Diantha Did'' ([[1910]]) (full text at link below)
* ''The Crux'' ([[1911]])
* ''[[Moving the Mountain]]'' ([[1911]])
* ''Benigna Machiavelli'' ([[1914]])
* ''[[Herland]]'' (1915) (full text at link below)
* ''[[With Her in Ourland]]'' (1916)
* ''The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader'' ([[1980]])
* ''The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories'' ([[1995]])
* ''Unpunished: A Mystery'' ([[1998]]) (posthumous first-time printing)
 
===Short stories===
* "[[The Yellow Wall-Paper]]" ([[1892]]) (full text at link below)
* "A Cabinet Meeting" (1895)
* "A Woman's Utopia" (1907)
* "A Strange Land" (1912)
 
=== Nonfiction ===
* ''Women and Economics'' ([[1898]])
* ''Concerning Children'' ([[1900]])
* ''The Home: Its Work and Influence'' ([[1903]])
* ''Human Work'' ([[1904]])
* ''The Man-Made World; or, Our Andocentric Culture'' ([[1911]])
* ''Our Brains and What Ails Them''. ([[1912]])
* ''Humanness'' ([[1913]])
* ''Social Ethics'' ([[1914]])
* ''The Dress of Women'' ([[1915]])
* ''Growth and Combat'' ([[1916]])
* ''His Religion and Hers'' ([[1923]])
* ''The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography'' ([[1935]])
 
=== Poetry ===
* ''In This Our World'' ([[1893]])
* ''Suffrage Songs and Verses'' ([[1911]])
 
== External Links ==
* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/gilmbib.html Biblio and Links on Charlotte Perkins Gilman]
* [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gilman.htm Biographical info]
* [http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/CPGguide.html Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A Guide to Research]
* [http://www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/herland/ text of ''Herland'']
* [http://www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/what-diantha-did/1/ text of ''What Diantha Did'']
* [http://www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/2086/ text of "The Yellow Wallpaper"]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 16:12, 19 July 2010

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a pioneering American feminist and the author of dramas, dialogues, poetry, nearly two hundred short stories and several novels. Her nonfiction work covered the subjects of economics, education, religion, women's rights, and much more.

She is best known for the fantastic utopian novel Herland and for the germinal short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which only form a minuscule sample of her work, but feminist efforts have brought some of her other writings back into print.


Bibliography

Fiction

Short stories

  • "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892) (full text at link below)
  • "A Cabinet Meeting" (1895)
  • "A Woman's Utopia" (1907)
  • "A Strange Land" (1912)

Nonfiction

  • Women and Economics (1898)
  • Concerning Children (1900)
  • The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903)
  • Human Work (1904)
  • The Man-Made World; or, Our Andocentric Culture (1911)
  • Our Brains and What Ails Them. (1912)
  • Humanness (1913)
  • Social Ethics (1914)
  • The Dress of Women (1915)
  • Growth and Combat (1916)
  • His Religion and Hers (1923)
  • The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography (1935)

Poetry

  • In This Our World (1893)
  • Suffrage Songs and Verses (1911)

External Links