In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
Today we’re celebrating:
Today we’re celebrating:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Writer (1860 – 1935)
Writer (1860 – 1935)
- Became a writer and lecturer in her mid-thirties despite receiving four years of erratic education
- Her mother forbade her from reading fiction as a child, but later received a list of books to read from her absent father
- Perkins’ most famous work, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a semi-autobiographical short story based on her experience with post-partum depression and dismissive attitude men had toward post-partum women as being ill or hysterical
- Perkins divorced her husband in 1894, a rare practice in the 19th century
- Her book “Women and Economics” argued for women’s economic independence
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