Author guide

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Books in Order

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American author, feminist theorist, social critic, lecturer, and reformer. Born Charlotte Anna Perkins, she published early work as Charlotte Perkins Stetson and later used Charlotte Perkins Gilman after her second marriage. Her writing addressed women's economic independence, domestic labor, motherhood, education, social evolution, religion, suffrage, and human work through nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. The Yellow Wallpaper, Women and Economics, and the utopian novels Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her in Ourland are her most influential works. From 1909 through 1916 she wrote, edited, and largely produced the monthly periodical The Forerunner, which serialized much of her later fiction and nonfiction.