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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
Author:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935, American feminist and reformer, b. Hartford, Conn.; great-granddaughter of Lyman
Beecher
. Prominent as a lecturer and writer on the labor movement and feminism, she edited the
Forerunner,
a liberal journal. She wrote many works on social and economic problems, the most important of which is
Women and Economics
(1898, repr. 1970). Incurably ill, she committed suicide.
Bibliography:
See her autobiography (1935).
Author not available,
GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS.
,
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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