The Charlotte Perkins Gilman reader

Alternate Titles

• Yellow wallpaper, and other fiction.

Description

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by the noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman's novel of a feminist utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman's intellectual and creative production.

First Sentence

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Excerpt

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Subjects

Other Editions

• The Charlotte Perkins Gilman reader: The yellow wallpaper, and other fictionPantheon Books1980-01-01
• The Charlotte Perkins Gilman readerPantheon Books1980-01-01
• The Charlotte Perkins Gilman readerWoman's Press1981-01-01
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman ReaderHardcoverPeter Smith Pub Inc1992-12-01
• The Charlotte Perkins Gilman readerUniversity Press of Virginia1999-01-01