![]() Since their mother was unable to support the family on her own, the Perkinses were often in the presence of her father's aunts, namely Isabella Beecher Hooker, a suffragist Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Catharine Beecher, educationalist. During Charlotte's infancy, her father moved out and abandoned his wife and children, and the remainder of her childhood was spent in poverty. ![]() She had only one brother, Thomas Adie, who was fourteen months older, because a physician advised Mary Perkins that she might die if she bore other children. ![]() Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Perkins (formerly Mary Fitch Westcott) and Frederic Beecher Perkins. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story " The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ l m ən/ née Perkins J– August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. ![]()
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