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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. Here we publish some of her other short stories. There is no doubt that she is a very talented writer who can build and capture a world that most other writers cannot.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Connecticut. Her father left when she was young and Gilman spent the rest of her childhood in poverty. As an adult she took classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and supported herself financially as a tutor, painter and artist. She had a short marriage with an artist and suffered serious postnatal depression after the birth of their daughter. In 1888 Gilman moved to California, where she became involved in feminist organizations. In California, she was inspired to write and she published The Yellow Wallpaper in The New England Magazine in 1892. In later life she was diagnosed with breast cancer and died by suicide in 1935.
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The Short Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, The Yellow Wallpaper
, which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.
Here we publish that classic short story together with two others which again reveal the workings and talents of a very fine writer.
Index Of Contents
If I Were a Man
The Giant Wistaria
The Yellow Wallpaper
IF I WERE A MAN
'If I were a man...' that was what pretty little Mollie Mathewson always said when Gerald would not do what she wanted him to, which was seldom.
That was what she said this bright morning, with a stamp of her little high-heeled slipper, just because he had made a fuss about that bill, the long one with the 'account rendered,' which she had forgotten to give him the first time and been afraid to the second and now he had taken it from the postman himself.
Mollie was 'true to type.' She was a beautiful instance of what is reverentially called 'a true woman.' Little, of course, no true woman may be big. Pretty, of course, no true woman could possibly be plain. Whimsical, capricious, charming, changeable, devoted to pretty clothes and always 'wearing them well,' as the esoteric phrase has it. (This does not refer to the clothes, they do not wear well in the least, but to some special grace of putting them on and carrying them about, granted to but few, it appears.)
She was also a loving wife and a devoted mother possessed of 'the social gift' and the love of 'society' that goes with it, and, with all these was fond and proud of her home and managed it as capably as, well, as most women do.
If ever there was a true woman it was Mollie Mathewson, yet she was wishing heart and soul she was a man.
And all of a sudden she was!
She was Gerald, walking down the path so erect and square-shouldered, in a hurry for his morning train, as usual, and, it must be confessed, in something of a temper.
Her own words were ringing in her ears, not only the 'last word,' but several that had gone before, and she was holding her lips tight shut, not to say something she would be sorry for. But instead of acquiescence in the position taken by that angry little figure on the veranda, what she felt was a sort of superior pride, a sympathy as with weakness, a feeling that 'I must be gentle with her,' in spite of the temper.
A man! Really a man, with only enough subconscious memory of herself remaining to make her recognize the differences.
At first there was a funny sense of size and weight and extra thickness, the feet and hands seemed strangely large, and her long, straight, free legs swung forward at a gait that made her feel as if on stilts.
This presently passed, and in its place, growing all day, wherever she went, came a new and delightful feeling of being the right size.
Everything fitted now. Her back snugly