The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings
Penguin Vitae
$62.03
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2020
Summary
A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer’s most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick.
Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman’s mental breakdo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143134794 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143134795 |
| Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Bolick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 136mm x 204mm |
| Series: | Penguin Vitae |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendant of the prominent and influential Beecher family. She married Charles Water Stetson in 1884. After giving birth, Charlotte sank into a deep depression and entered a sanitarium in Philadelphia to undergo the ‘rest cure,’ a controversial treatment that forbade any type of physical activity or intellectual stimulation.
In 1892, she published the now-famous story “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” Her most famous nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published in 1898. With its publication and subsequent translation into seven languages, Gilman earned international acclaim. In 1900, she married her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman. Over the next thirty-five years, she wrote and published hundreds of stories and poems and more than a dozen books.
Kate Bolick’s first book, the best-selling Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. A contributing editor for The Atlantic, Bolick is also host of “Touchstones at The Mount,” an annual interview series at Edith Wharton’s country estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. Previously, she was executive editor of Domino magazine and a columnist for The Boston Globe’s Ideas section. She teaches writing at New York University in both the Cultural Reporting and Criticism MA program and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Bolick speaks frequently at colleges and conferences and has appeared on The Today show, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, MSNBC, and numerous NPR programs.
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