About Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a writer and a women's rights advocate, proved that women could do anything. She was born in a time when women were prisoners in their own home. Forced into marriage and thought of as arm candy, many women lived in fear and misery. Gilman, however took a stand and caught for her voice to be heard. In her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, she portrayed her inner demons, her husband and her psychiatric Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, through a narrator gone mad. Her story, even though castes as a work of fiction , shone a light on the truth of how horrific women were treated during the Victorian Era. The story at the time was almost deemed as unprintable but was so true that it indeed was. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was in many ways the narrator from The Yellow Wallpaper, in the flesh. "While she is best known for her fiction, Gilman was also a successful lecturer and intellectual." Claims Biography.com. Gilman was married at 24 and had a baby named Katherine. For most women, having a baby was their only accomplishment. On the contrary, Gilman only became depressed from her living situation. She like many others, endured the Rest Cure, a treatment so unintelligent, it's hard to believe people thought it worked. Later in life, Gilman divorced her husband and married her cousin, George Gilman, the love of her life. In 1935, she committed suicide. She stated "I would rather take chloroform than cancer." Even though Charlotte Perkins Gilman passed, her ideas about equality for all, will live on forever. 

Works Cited: Picture of Gilman, Charlotte P. link: https://tantor.com/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman.html 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Biography. Biography.com Editors. Biography.com. link: http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman-9311669