Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Their life
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, born July 3, 1860, and died August 17, 1935, was also known by her first married name, Charlotte Perkins Stetson. She worked as a humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, and early sociologist, and she advocated for social reform.
Gilman was one of the leading early figures in the American women's rights movement. By modern standards, she is considered a socialist feminist. Her writing concentrated on gender, particularly the way labor was divided in society, and on the problem of male supremacy.
Her best-known works include the semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), which drew on her experience with postpartum depression. She also wrote *Women and Economics* (1898), a manifesto arguing for women's economic independence, and *Herland* (1
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