American · b. 1860
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer and pioneering feminist thinker best known for the landmark short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and the utopian novel Herland.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a leading feminist intellectual, lecturer, and social reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose writing challenged the constraints placed on women.
Her most famous work, the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), drew on her own experience of the “rest cure” to deliver a searing depiction of a woman’s mental breakdown under patriarchal medicine, and is now a classic of feminist literature. Her nonfiction Women and Economics and the utopian novel Herland developed her vision of women’s independence.
Gilman is recognized as a foundational figure in feminist thought and literature, her work newly resonant with each generation.
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's landmark 1892 short story. Confined to a room and forbidden to work or write as a 'rest cure' for nervous depression, a woman becomes obsessed with the room's hideous yellow wallpaper, descending into a madness that doubles as a devastating indictment of how women were treated.
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