Charlotte Gilman
Charlotte Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilmanwas a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth3 July 1860
behind clearer creeping dim knows nobody outside paper pattern shapes society woman
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.
common folk friends-or-friendship marry people
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.