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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Full Blog - With Additional Context Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of the very first feminist authors in literature. She wrote both fiction and non-fiction literature, in the form of prose and poetry, making them authentically representative of the era she was writing in. Gilman’s work specifically targets the hardships and injustice of women in the nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century. These concepts can be highly identified in her most famous short story,  The Yellow Wallpaper  (1892), which is thought to have great relevance to Gilman’s personal experiences in her own marriage, with her mental health being suppressed and ridiculed by her first husband (Gilman and Golden, 2004). In this novel, Gilman depicts the concept of patriarchal marriage, in which the impertinent superiority of the husband, drove the narrator to madness through neglect and imprisonment. This depiction of imprisonment, though far more expli...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poetry Assignment Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of the very first feminist authors in literature. She wrote both fiction and non-fiction literature, in the form of prose and poetry, authentically representative of the era she was writing in. Gilman’s work specifically targets the hardships and injustice of women in the nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century. These concepts can be highly identified in her most famous short story,  The Yellow Wallpaper  (1892), which is thought to have great relevance to Gilman’s personal experiences with her mental health being suppressed and ridiculed by her first husband (Gilman and Golden, 2004). In this novel, Gilman depicts the concept of patriarchal marriage, in which the impertinent superiority of the husband drove the narrator to madness through neglect and imprisonment (Kessler, 1995). This depiction of imprisonment, though far more explicit in this novel, can be likened to...