Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Perkins and Frederic Beecher Perkins. She is a very well known literary figure. She was a feminist, journalist and author of a number of fiction and non-fiction works. These include Women and Economics (1898), Concerning Children (1900), The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903) and Herland (1915). She is a famous novelist, short-story writer, sociologist, and a lecturer for social reform. She is a very sensitive writer, simple and soft natured. She writes from the feminist point of view. She was a utopian feminist writer and she served as a role model for generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concept and lifestyle. She is best known for her semi-autobiographical …show more content…
When he left them they had to lead a very tough life and struggle to live. Gilman’s education was very haphazard because of the financial crisis. She could not study in well known or top grade schools, colleges, universities like other writers but with her hard work and dedication she became one of the most famous and renowned writers of her time. Family issues had a direct impact on Gilman’s life and her education suffered greatly due to …show more content…
Gilman also wrote her monthly journal The Forerunner from 1909-1916, What Diantha Did (1910), Suffrage Song and Verses (1911). The Man made World or our Andocentric culture (1911) and Moving the Mountain (1911) which was followed by Herland (1915). It is a utopian tale of three male explorers who discover an all female society, free from war, poverty and oppressive domination. This was followed by With Her in Our Land (1916). Gilman also wrote His Religion and Hers in 1923. Gilman was thinking about marriages, sexual relationships and economics in American life, and wrote the first draft of Women and Economics (1898), In 1903, she wrote one of her most critical works The Home: Its Work and Influence, dealing with the issues related to women, that how women are oppressed in their homes, suppressed by their husbands and that the atmosphere of the home must be modified for the betterment and better mental state of