Biography of charlotte perkins gilman
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Born 3 July 1860, Hartford, Connecticut; died 17 August 1935, Pasadena, California
Daughter of Frederick Beecher and Mary A.
Fritch Perkins; married Charles Walter Stetson, 1884 (divorced 1894); George Houghton Gilman, 1900; children: one daughter
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's father left the family soon after she was born.
Biography of charlotte perkins gilman
Although he made infrequent visits home and provided meager support for his family, he was largely responsible for Gilman's early education, emphasizing reading in the sciences and history. Her only formal education consisted of brief attendance at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Like her great aunt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilman was a reformer. At an early age, she recognized the plight (particularly the economic servitude) of her mother and many New England housewives. By age twenty-one, she was writing poetry that described the limitations of being female in late-19th-century New England.
As a teenager, Gilman was a com