Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
Autore di The Yellow Wallpaper - story
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Conn. Her traumatic childhood led to depression and to her eventual suicide. Gilman's father abandoned the family when she was a child and her mother, who was not an affectionate woman, recruited relatives to help raise her children. Among mostra altro these relatives was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Due to her family situation, Gilman learned independence, but also became alienated from her many female relatives. Gilman married in 1884 and was soon diagnosed with depression. She was prescribed bed rest, which only seemed to aggravate her condition and she eventually divorced her husband, fearing that marriage was partly responsible for her depressed state. After this, Gilman became involved in feminist activities and the writing that made her a major figure in the women's movement. Books such as Women and Economics, written in 1898, are proof of her importance as a feminist. Here she states that only when women learn to be economically independent can true equality be achieved. Her fiction works, particularly The Yellow Wallpaper, are also written with feminist ideals. A frequent lecturer, she also founded the feminist magazine Forerunner in 1909. Gilman, suffering from cancer, chose to end her own life and committed suicide on August 17, 1935. More information about this fascinating figure can be found in her book The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, published in 1935. (Bowker Author Biography) Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Conn. Her traumatic childhood led to depression and to her eventual suicide. Gilman's father abandoned the family when she was a child and her mother, who was not an affectionate woman, recruited relatives to help raise her children. Among these relatives was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Due to her family situation, Gilman learned independence, but also became alienated from her many female relatives. Gilman married in 1884 and was soon diagnosed with depression. She was prescribed bed rest, which only seemed to aggravate her condition and she eventually divorced her husband, fearing that marriage was partly responsible for her depressed state. After this, Gilman became involved in feminist activities and the writing that made her a major figure in the women's movement. Books such as Women and Economics, written in 1898, are proof of her importance as a feminist. Here she states that only when women learn to be economically independent can true equality be achieved. Her fiction works, particularly The Yellow Wallpaper, are also written with feminist ideals. A frequent lecturer, she also founded the feminist magazine Forerunner in 1909. Gilman, suffering from cancer, chose to end her own life and committed suicide on August 17, 1935. More information about this fascinating figure can be found in her book The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, published in 1935. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and the History of Its Publication and Reception: A Critical Edition… (1990) 26 copie
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Textbook Critical Edition (2006) 14 copie
Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman US (Illustrated) (Series Six Book 1) (2015) 8 copie
The Dress of Women: A Critical Introduction to the Symbolism and Sociology of Clothing (2001) 6 copie
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Collection Volume I (Illustrated): The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland and The Man-Made World (2014) 4 copie
The yellow wallpaper = El papel de pared amarillo ; According to Solomon = Según Salomón (2014) 2 copie
Herland and Other Works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 2 copie
The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper, Women and Economics, Herland, Suffrage Songs and… (2015) 2 copie
Making a Living 2 copie
Mag-Marjorie & Won Over: Two Novels (Ironweed American Classics) (Ironweed American Classics) (1999) 2 copie
The Giant Wistaria 2 copie
Dr. Clair's Place 2 copie
If I were a man [Short story] 1 copia
The yellow wallpaper 1 copia
Martha's Mother 1 copia
Her Houskeeper 1 copia
Tales of Terror: The Monkey's Paw, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cone, The Yellow Wallpaper (2014) 1 copia
Three Thanksgivings 1 copia
My Poor Aunt 1 copia
The Unexpected 1 copia
The Yellow Wallpaper - Annotated 1 copia
世界恐怖小說選 卷二: 曲折詭異的世界名家名作 1 copia
The Giant Wisteria [short story] 1 copia
W.S. Maugham - La moglie del Colonnello | Charlotte Perkins Gilman - La carta da parati gialla — Autore — 1 copia
Herland Illustrated 1 copia
Mrs. Beazley's Deeds 1 copia
Joan's Defender 1 copia
Spoken To 1 copia
Her Beauty 1 copia
Mrs. Elder's Idea 1 copia
A Mischievous Rudiment 1 copia
Collected Stories 1 copia
The Forerunner 1 copia
The Boys and the Butter 1 copia
The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 copia
Turned 1 copia
Suffrage Songs and Verses - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (ANNOTATED) [Second Edition] [Full Version] (2018) 1 copia
A Collection of Poems by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (In This Our World, Suffrage Songs and Verses) (2019) 1 copia
The New England magazine 1 copia
'The Yellow Wallpaper'; with 'Woman', Gilman's acclaimed feminist poetry (Aziloth Books) (2015) 1 copia
Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman "American feminist, sociologist, and novelist"! 9 Complete Works (The Yellow… (2017) 1 copia
La carta gialla 1 copia
Old Mrs. Crosley 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia
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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Collaboratore — 264 copie
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah OrneJewett, Edith Wharton… (1990) — Collaboratore — 124 copie
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 (2015) — Collaboratore — 89 copie
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 19 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself (2006) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 (Handheld Classics) (2019) — Collaboratore — 68 copie
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
The Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the Cinema: The First Fifty Years (2006) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms: 43 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
La nueva mujer: Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins
- Altri nomi
- Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
- Data di nascita
- 1860-07-03
- Data di morte
- 1935-08-17
- Luogo di sepoltura
- cremated
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Pasedena, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- suicide
- Luogo di residenza
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Pasadena, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Norwich, Connecticut, USA - Istruzione
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer
social reformer
magazine editor
public speaker
economist (mostra tutto 8)
women's rights activist
suffragist - Relazioni
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher (great-aunt)
Beecher, Catharine (great-aunt)
Hooker, Isabella Beecher (great-aunt) - Breve biografia
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Frederick Beecher Perkins and his wife Mary Fitch Westcott.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Beecher, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, three of the most distinguished 19th-century American writers and women's advocates were her great-aunts of whom she was very proud. Charlotte herself became a noted writer, public speaker, economist, and women's rights and suffrage activist. In 1884, at the age of 24, she married Charles Walter Stetson, an aspiring artist, and the following year gave birth to their daughter. Shortly after the birth, Charlotte suffered a serious bout of what today would be diagnosed as post-partum depression. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," published in 1892. She also wrote a famous treatise, Women and Economics (1898), in which she said women could never be truly independent until they first had economic freedom. This theme was explored through her lectures, her more than 1,000 nonfiction publications, and her fiction. In 1900, Gilman remarried to her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman. Over the next 25 years, Charlotte also ran her own magazine, The Forerunner, in which many of her stories appeared. An advocate of euthanasia, Gilman ended her life at the age of 75 with an overdose of chloroform. Her work fell into obscurity until it was revived by the women’s movement in the 1960s. In 1994, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
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Woman goes mad and constantly walks around a room, leaving a groove in the wallpaper in Name that Book (Aprile 2012)
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- Opere
- 137
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- 76
- Utenti
- 12,492
- Popolarità
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
- 353
- ISBN
- 761
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 21
La nostra protagonista, in depressione post partum, impossibilitata anche solo a sollevare un bicchiere dai suoi zelanti
carcerierifamiliari, e considerata dal marito più come una bestiola domestica che una persona, deve passare gran parte delle giornate in camera da letto, a fissare una vecchia carta da parati gialla e consunta. Cosa potrà mai andare storto?La premessa è autobiografica: l'autrice soffrì di depressione post partum, e parliamo di un'epoca in cui la cura delle malattie mentali era cosa pressoché sconosciuta, anzi, in cui le malattie mentali in sé erano ancora considerati poco più che fantasie dei pazienti (cosa non proprio terminata, purtroppo).
Non solo, il trattamento a cui venne sottoposta la Gilman, e a cui il racconto fa probabilmente riferimento, era la Weir Mitchell Rest Cure (dallo psicologo che la mise in pratica) a base di avventure nella natura per gli uomini (non malati, ma solo "rammolliti" e quindi bisognosi di riprendere in mando la loro virilità) e di riposo assoluto chiuse in casa per donne, incluso il divieto di sforzarsi dal punto di vista mentale, scrivendo o dipingendo etc. (per calmare i loro spiriti "sovraeccitati" e ricordare loro che, se fossero rimaste in casa come tutte le brave mogli, in primo luogo non si sarebbero ammalate...).
E cosa si può pensare di peggio, per una mente già instabile e frustrata, di lunghe, lunghissime ore da passare chiuse in una stanza, senza nulla da fare che non mangiare, fissare il muro, mangiare, fissare il muro, mangiare, fissare il muro...… (altro)