Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer.(Review)

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From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20010101
Author:Scharnhorst, Gary

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer. Edited by Jill Rudd and Val Gough. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. 328 pp. $37.951$17.95 paper.

A spinoff from the first international Charlotte Perkins Gilman conference in Liverpool in June 1995, this collection of fourteen essays attests to Gilman's intellectual versatility, the growing interest in her work among scholars in a wide variety of disciplines, and her continuing appeal a generation after her initial revival. The best of these essays plumb the seldom-explored recesses of Gilman's writings. Sandra Gilbert ...

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