Also included in this Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition is a selection of Gilman's poetry and other short fiction. Herland, Gilman's most famous novel, is a feminist utopian comedy in which three men stumble upon a society of women that has banished men. Based on the nervous breakdown she suffered during her own disastrous first marriage, The Yellow Wall-Paper is her classic story about a woman who goes mad when the rest-cure treatment she undergoes forbids her any kind of work. In her works of fiction, Gilman sought to illustrate her ideas about the way American society squandered the talents and economic contributions of women. A new collection of fiction and poetry from a major voice in American feminism and literatureĬharlotte Perkins Gilman was a turn-of-the-century American feminist and socialist thinker.
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