Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography

by Cynthia J. Davis

Book Overview

Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which she is best-known today, "The Yellow Wallpaper." She was hailed as the "brains" of the US women's movement, whose focus she sought to broaden from suffrage to economics. Her most influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738890
• ISBN13: 9780804738897
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"