Herland And Selected Stories By Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451525620 ISBN 13: 9780451525628

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

A collection of stories by the author of The Yellow Wallpaper features the complete text of "Herland" and such short stories as "Mrs. Elder's Idea" and "The Unexpected." Reissue.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a major American feminist and prolific writer, published a dozen books of social analysis, almost two hundred poems and close to two hundred short stories and novels. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, a grandniece of Harriet Beecher Stowe, she attended the Rhode Island School of Design before marrying her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson. Her mental breakdown after the birth of her daughter led to the writing of her now classic short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." She left her husband in 1888 and supported herself by lecturing, editing, writing, and teaching. After she obtained a divorce, she created a public scandal by allowing her daughter to live with her ex-husband and his new wife. In 1900, she married George Houghton Gilman. Her writings include Women and Economics (1898), hailed as "the Bible" of the women's movement, Concerning Children (1900), Human Work (1904), Man-Made World (1911), and The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography (1935). After being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, she committed suicide in Pasadena, California.

Barbara H. Solomon is professor emeritus of English and Women's Studies at Iona College. Her major academic interests are twentieth-century American and world literature. Among the anthologies she has edited are The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin; Other Voices, Other Vistas; and The Haves and Have-Nots. With Eileen Panetta, she has coedited Once upon a Childhood; Passages 24 Modern Indian Stories; and Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0451525620
• ISBN 13: 9780451525628
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384