Allen, a professor of gender studies and history at Indiana University, relied on the Schlesinger in writing The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism (University of Chicago, 2009), for which she was awarded a Schlesinger Library research grant in 1992–1993. The Schlesinger is the world’s major repository for Gilman’s papers. That context is made possible by the Schlesinger Library, where Gilman’s papers reside and have recently been fully digitized. Gilman is still known more for “The Yellow Wallpaper” than any other work, but contemporary scholars are taking another look at her, this time in a context that includes all her writing. Her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” about a woman confined to her bedroom, hallucinating as she stares at the patterns on the wall, became especially popular, as did Herland (1915) and her other utopian novels. Then, when 1970s feminists discovered her, they tended to read her fiction more than her nonfiction. Internationally known during her lifetime (1860–1935) as a feminist, a socialist, and the author of Women and Economics (1898)-an instant classic-she was less well recognized for her prodigious literary output.Īfter her death, Gilman dropped out of the public consciousness for several decades. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of those writers whose reputations have changed over time, and she has sometimes dropped out of view entirely.
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