Results for "Gilman, Charlotte Perkins"

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon—with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and a Granta Best Young American NovelistCharlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, ... Read More about The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings (Modern Library Torchbearers)

The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career The last decades have seen a resurgence of interest in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, now considered among the most important thinkers in US history. She is best known for fiction—s... Read More about The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894 (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)

If some say Innocence is the greatest charm of young girls, the answer is, What good does it do them? The Crux is the story of group of women who move from New England to Colorado in order to run a boardinghouse for men. One of these women, the young Vivian Lane, falls in love with a man who has bot... Read More about The Crux

Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here.Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to ... Read More about The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)

The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career The last decades have seen a resurgence of interest in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, now considered among the most important thinkers in US history. She is best known for fiction—s... Read More about The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894 (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)