Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 (Keywords)

Herland is the account of a female utopia that has been called 'a woman's answer to H.G Wells'. Three explorers stumble on a community of women living in the Amazon rainforest, in a land without class divisions, war, greed, lust or hatred.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the...

This collection of short stories highlights work of early Feminist Charlotte Gilman as an editor, activist, and writer. She focused on how women were not just stay-at-home mothers they were expected to be, but people who had dreams, able to travel and work as men did, and whose goals included a s...

'The colour is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing'. Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized 19th-century readers with ...