Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Gems of Art for the Home and Fireside
Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author: Cynthia DavisPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804738890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Beecher-descendent, zealous reformer, exhilarating lecturer, prolific writer, scandalous divorcee, "unnatural mother," international celebrity, and life-long controversialist.
Transatlantic Conversations
Author: Beth L. LueckPublisher: University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN: 1512600288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This unique interdisciplinary essay collection offers a fresh perspective on the active involvement of American women authors in the nineteenth-century transatlantic world. Internationally diverse contributors explore topics ranging from women's social and political mobility to their authorship and activism. While a number of essays focus on such well-known writers as Margaret Fuller, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, other, perhaps lesser-known authors are also included, such as E. D. E. N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Peabody, Jeannette Hart, and Laura Richards. These essays show the spectrum of interests and activities in which nineteenth-century women were involved as they moved, geographically and metaphorically, toward gaining their independence and the right to control their lives. Traveling far and wide - to Italy, France, Great Britain, and the Bahamas - these writers came into contact with realities far different from their own. On topics ranging from homeopathy and literary endeavors to politics and revolution, they conversed with others, reaching and inspiring transnational audiences with their words and deeds, and creating a space for self-expression in the rapidly changing transatlantic world.
Wild Unrest
Author: Helen Lefkowitz HorowitzPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199753000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. "The Yellow Wall-Paper" captured a woman's harrowing descent into madness and drew on the author's intimate knowledge of mental illness. Like the narrator of her story, Gilman was a victim of what was termed "neurasthenia" or "hysteria"--a "bad case of the nerves." She had faced depressive episodes since adolescence, and with the arrival of marriage and motherhood, they deepened. In 1887 she suffered a severe breakdown and sought the "rest cure" of famed neurologist S. Weir Mitchell. Her marriage was a troubled one, and in the years that followed she separated from and ultimately divorced her husband. It was at this point, however, that Gilman embarked on what would become an influential career as an author, lecturer, and advocate for women's rights. Horowitz draws on a treasure trove of primary sources to illuminate the making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper": Gilman's journals and letters, which closely track her daily life and the reading that most influenced her; the voluminous diaries of her husband, Walter Stetson, which contain verbatim transcriptions of conversations with and letters from Charlotte; and the published work of S. Weir Mitchell, whose rest cure dominated the treatment of female "hysteria" in late 19th century America. Horowitz argues that these sources ultimately reveal that Gilman's great story emerged more from emotions rooted in the confinement and tensions of her unhappy marriage than from distress following Mitchell's rest cure. Wild Unrest adds immeasurably to our understanding of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, uncovering both the literary and personal sources behind "The Yellow Wall-Paper."
Gems for the Fireside
Author: Gems of Modern Poetry; a Selection of the Choicest Poems of the Most Popular Authors of the Present Day
Author: Art Books
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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Including an international directory of museum permanent collection catalogs.
Art Books, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
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