Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,
1860–1935, American feminist and reformer, b. Hartford, Conn.; great-granddaughter of Lyman BeecherBeecher, Lyman,1775–1863, American Presbyterian clergyman, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale, 1797. In 1799 he became pastor at East Hampton, N.Y. While serving (1810–26) in the Congregational Church at Litchfield, Conn.
..... Click the link for more information. . Prominent as a lecturer and writer on the labor movement and feminism, she edited the Forerunner, a liberal journal. She wrote many works on social and economic problems, the most important of which is Women and Economics (1898). She is perhaps best known for her semiautobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1890), which describes a woman's nervous breakdown. Incurably ill, she committed suicide.
Bibliography
See her autobiography (1935); study by H. L. Horowitz (2010).