San Antonio College Library

One of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. Nearly forgotten in the years following her death, she has been the subject of renewed interest and appreciation in recent decades. Drawing from her previous two-volume edition of The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, editor Denise D. Knight here makes available a streamlined version of Gilman's extensive personal...

"The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman makes accessible the many intricate narratives created by Gilman's correspondences. The editors have grouped the letters according to the significant events in Gilman's life and the important people to whom she wrote, including her friends and family members."--Inside jacket.

The astonishing success of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel "Herland" years after it was written made its author famous -- but not for the first time. At the turn of the century she was one of America's most celebrated women writers. Ann J. Lane gives a penetrating account of Gilman's troubled but ultimately triumphant life. Despite difficulties and her recurrent depressions, Gilman forged not only a happy second marriage but also a major body of...