When looking
at Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I realized I didn’t know anything about her, so I
have decided to research her life. The following is going to include a
biography about her and some other interesting information.
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. When she was
growing up, she had a hard childhood. Her Childhood really went south when her
father abandoned her family in shambles. Because of her father leaving, her
family moved around a lot and she didn’t receive the education she deserved.
Twenty four
years later, she married Charles Stetson in 1882. She had a daughter named
Katherine. During her marriage with Charles, she went through some hard times,
and went through what would be the inspiration to her book “The Yellow
Wall-Paper.” She went through what was called the rest cure, where you weren’t
supposed to do anything but rest. This book was meant to help people going
through the same thing as she had.
Later in
1898, she published another great book, but this wasn’t a fictional story, it
was a nonfiction piece of work named “Women and Economics. In this book she
asked for women to stand up for them selves and gain economic independence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd9FbHxrd-8 . This video shows, feminism and economics, which is really the same thing. It shows how big the women in economics movement has been.
In !909, she
also made a magazine that was printed from 1909 to 1916. The magazine helped
women express their ideas about issues and social reform.
“In 1900,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman had married for the second time. She wed her cousin
George Gilman, and the two stayed together until his death in 1934. The next
year she discovered that she had inoperable breast cancer. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman committed suicide on August 17, 1935.” http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman-9311669
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