The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Book Overview

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 seven languages. She was a tireless traveler, lecturer, and writer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060904224
• ISBN13: 9780060904227
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Book to see How She Truly lived her life

Gilman was a woman who went through much pain and suffering this book tells of her life being taken away from her by her Psychiatrist whom she hated for the rest of her. She speaks of being put on the Rest Cure for Post-Pardom Depression and how the doctors told her not to have anymore children. She speaks of her 8 years being locked up in her own house and in an insane asylum and she tells how her doctor put her on a regamine for the rest of her life. She also speaks of how she was not able to write and generate what she loved most--writing; because her doctor told her not too. She speaks of her publication of her first short stories and "The Yellow Wallpaper" and many others of her stories. She also or the author also speaks of how Gilman commits suicide in the end. It gets really depressing, but you really see how Psychologists thought in the 19th century and how a great writer had to live her life.