The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America’s most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman’s feminist Utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman’s intellectual and creative production.

Content:

The yellow wallpaper
When I was a witch
If I were a man
The girl in the pink hat
The cottagette
The unnatural mother
Making a change
An honest woman
Turned
The widow’s might
Mr. Peebles’ heart
The crux
What Diantha did
Benigna Machiavelli
Unpunished
Moving the mountain
Herland
With her in Ourland.