Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Anna Perkins was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, into the Beecher family; Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, was her great-aunt. Her father left the family when she was a baby, and she grew up poor, attending seven different schools. In 1878 she enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design and supported herself by designing trade cards. In 1884 she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson, and their daughter Katharine was born the next year. She then suffered a severe depression after childbirth, and the physician S. Weir Mitchell prescribed his 'rest cure', which forbade her to write or paint. Her story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) drew on that experience. She moved to Pasadena, California, and became a popular lecturer. Women and Economics (1898) argued that women should be able to earn their own living. From 1909 to 1916 she wrote and edited her own magazine, The Forerunner, where Herland (1915) first appeared. She died in Pasadena in 1935.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: Faith not well documented; she came from the religious and literary Beecher family. Source: Wikipedia

See also: Harriet Beecher Stowe