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Charlotte Perkins Gilman () was one of the leading intellectuals of the American women's movement in the first two decades of the twentieth century....
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( - )
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Frederick Beecher Perkins, a librarian and writer, and Mary (Westcott) Perkins.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: a nonfiction reader.
Among her father's forebears was the novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was his aunt. Perkins abandoned his wife after their infant died in - Mary Perkins lived with her children on the brink of poverty and was often forced to move from relative to relative or to other temporary lodgings.
Charlotte was a voracious reader and largely self-educated. She studied two years at Rhode Island School of Design () and then earned her living by designing greetings cards. In she married Charles Walter Stetson, an aspiring artist.
After the birth of their daughter Katharine, she was beset by depression and began treatment with Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell in His recommendations, 'live as domestic a life as possible' and 'never touch a pen, brush or pencil as long as you live' were later satirized by Gilma