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Charles Walter Stetson

He married Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1884, their only child was born in 1885, they were separated in 1888, and they divorced amicably in 1894.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In 1884, she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson after initially declining his proposal because a gut feeling told her it was not the right thing for her.

Edward Chalmers Leavitt

Painter Charles Walter Stetson, for instance, didn't disguise his contempt for Leavitt's steady output for the upper middle classes, which Stetson saw as influenced by the Fall River school.

Frank Tolles Chamberlin

In 1918, he married Katherine Beecher Stetson, the only daughter of the artist Charles Walter Stetson.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in her book Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper", concludes that "the story was a cri de coeur against Gilman's first husband, artist Charles Walter Stetson and the traditional marriage he had demanded."

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