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6 unusual facts about Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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.

His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers.

Helicon Home Colony

Following the model proposed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sinclair sought "authors, artists, and musicians, editors and teachers and professional men" who wanted to avoid the drudgeries of domestic life.

His Religion and Hers

His Religion And Hers is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1922, after she had moved with her husband from New York to Norwich, Connecticut.

Peter Carnley

His sermon on the occasion took as its reference an autobiographical piece by Charlotte Perkins Gilman entitled The Yellow Wallpaper.


Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Many collections, such as the papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauli Murray, and the records of the National Organization for Women, feature political, organizational, and economic questions.


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Marie Jenney Howe

Heterodoxy's group of feminist public intellectuals and radicals, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Fannie Hurst, Elisabeth Irwin, and many others, continued until the mid-1940s.

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."