Scholarship and criticism on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Libby Falk Jones.
  • "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of Feminist Utopias." 116-129. In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. ed. Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Godwin. Knoxville : U of Tenn. P, 1990.
Ann J. Lane.
  • "Introduction" to Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, New York: Pantheon Books: 1979.
Susan S. Lanser.
  • "Feminism's 'Yellow Wallpaper' and the Transformation of Literature," Lecture, Feb. 11, 1988, at the Univ. of Maryland at College Park.
  • "Feminist Criticism, The Yellow Wallpaper, and the Politics of Color in America." Feminist Studies v. 15, no. 3 (Fall 1989): pp. 415-441.
Margaret Miller.
  • "The Ideal Woman in Two Feminist Science-Fiction Utopias," Science-Fiction Studies, No. 30 (July 1983): pp. 191-198. compares Charnas' Motherlines with Gilman's Herland.
Thomas Galt Peyser.
  • "Reproducing Utopia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland." Studies in American Fiction v. 20 (Spring 1992) pages 1-16.
Marsha A. Smith
  • "The Disoriented Male Narrator and Societal Conversions: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminist Utopian Vision." ATQ v. ns3 (March 1989), pages 123-133.
Christopher P. Wilson.
  • "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Steady Burghers: The Terrain of Herland." Women's Studies v. 12, no. 3 (1986) pages 271-292.
Sheila Delany.
  • "Ambivalence in Utopia: The American Feminist Utopias of Charlotte P. Gilman and Marge Piercy" in Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern (New York: Schocken Books, 1983): pp. 157-180.
Julie Bates Dock.
  • Compiler, The Yellow Wall-Paper: And the History of Its Publication and Reception (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press; May 1998; ISBN 0271017341; 192 pp.) (includes the text of the story; book reviews; and a bibliographic history of the work)
Minna Doskow.
  • "Introduction" to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland (March 1999: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, ISBN 0838637612)


Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
  • The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935).
  • A Journey from Within: The Love Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1897-1900.
  • A Nonfiction Reader, ed. Larry Ceplair (1991)
Golden, Catherine
  • editor. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on the Yellow Wallpaper (1992: The Feminist Press at CUNY; 341 pp.; ISBN 1558610480)
Kasmer, Lisa.
  • "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: A Symptomatic Reading." Literature and Psychology v. 36, no. 3 (199-?): pp. 1-15.
Carol Farley Kessler.
  • "Consider Her Ways: The Cultural Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Pragmatopian Stories, 1908-1913." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994): pp. 126-136.
  • --. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia, With Selected Writings (Liverpool University Press) (ISBN 0-85323-499-X paperback; 0-85323-489-2 hardback)
Knight, Denise D.
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction
Gough, Val, and Rudd, Jill, editors.
  • A Very Different Story: Essays on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999) (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 14)
Graham, Amanda.
  • "Herland: Definitive Ecofeminist Fiction?" in A Very Different Story: Studies on the Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ed. by Val Gough and Jill Rudd (Liverpool UP: Liverpool, England, 1998): pp. 115-128.


Jeannette King and Pam Morris.
  • "On Not Reading Between the Lines: Models of Reading in The Yellow Wallpaper." Studies in Short Fiction v. 26 (Winter 1989): pp. 23-32.