21. Biografie Charlotte Perkins Gilman väterlicherseits Sozialreformerin Jane Addams (1860-1935) kennen, auf http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sozwww/agsoe/lexikon/klassiker/gilman/19bio.htm

Biografie Charlotte Perkins Gilman i.e. Charlotte Anna Perkins, verheiratete Stetson, verheiratete Gilman *Hartford, Connecticut 3. Juli 1860 Vater: Mutter: Mary Ann Fitch Westcott Perkins, geborene Fitch (?-1893), Gelegenheitsarbeiterin; 1869 geschieden Geschwister: 2 Totgeburten; Thomas Adie Perkins (1859-) 1. Ehe: Charles Walter Stetson (1858-1911), Kunstmaler; 1894 geschieden (seit 1888 getrennt) Kinder: Katherine Beecher Stetson, verheiratete Chamberlin (1885-1979), Kunstmalerin und Bildhauerin 2. Ehe: Religion: protestantisch Biografie Geboren als zweites von zwei Kindern in Hartford, Connecticut. Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-1878), der Frauenrechtlerin Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) und der Schriftstellerin Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). Lebte unter anderem in verschiedenen Orten in Connecticut, Massachusetts und New York. Zwischen 1867 und 1874 nur vier Jahre Schulbesuch. Lebte mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem Bruder in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Biografie Jane Addams i.e. Laura Jane Addams *Cedarville, Illinois 6. September 1860 Vater: Mutter: Sarah Weber Addams, geborene Weber (1817-1863), Hausfrau Geschwister: Mary Catherine Addams (1845-1894); Georgiana Addams (1849-1850); Martha Addams (1850-1867); John Weber Addams (1852-1918); Sarah Alice Addams (1853-1915); Horace Addams (1855-1855); George Weber Addams (1857-1859); (Totgeburt 1863) Stiefmutter: 1864 Anna Hostetter Haldeman (1828-1919), Hausfrau Stiefgeschwister: Henry Winfield Haldeman (1848-1905); George Bowman Haldeman (1861-1909); John Haldeman (als Kind gestorben); William Haldeman (als Kind gestorben) Ehe: keine Kinder: keine Religion: Biografie Geboren als achtes von neun Kindern in Cedarville, Illinois. Nach dem Tod der Mutter 1863 mit ihren Geschwistern beim Vater und (seit 1864 auch) ihrer Stiefmutter Anna Hostetter Haldeman aufgewachsen. Besuch des Rockford Female Seminary in Rockford, Illinois; nachdem das Seminary zu einem College geworden war 1882 B.A.

23. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935). . http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/gilman.html

Literary Movements Timeline American Authors English 310/510 ... English 462/562 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) American Literature Sites Foley Library Catalog "The Yellow Wallpaper" site at www.scribblingwomen.org includes an audio drama version of the story, biographical information, a short critical essay, and other materials. Biographical sketch and links to research collections at Kim Wells's Domestic Goddesses site. Bibliography of primary works at the Celebration of Women Writers site. "The Yellow Wallpaper" with commentary from Daniel Anderson's students at the University of Texas [1996]. Teaching Gilman's work from the Heath Anthology site. A page about Gilman from Clemson University contains a brief bibliography of secondary works. Study questions on Herland The Autobiography of a Quack by S. Weir Mitchell A student site with annotated bibliography by Dr. Jim Wohlpart's students at Florida Gulf Coast University (1998). Image courtesy of the Celebration of Women Writers site.

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Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS , feminist, author, and lecturer. Gilman achieved international fame as a feminist-socialist theorist with the publication of Women and Economics: The Economic Factor between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution in 1898. The book was translated into seven languages and is still in print today (the latest edition was published in 1975). She was a major critic of society who sought to create a cohesive, systematic body of thought that combined socialism (she was ideologically close to the English Fabians) and feminism (she described herself as a humanist, not a feminist, asserting that the world was masculinist and that she wished to redress the balance). In her vast body of work, which included book-length studies in history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and ethics, as well as novels, poetry, and short stories, Gilman tried to define a humane social order built upon what she called female values—life giving and nurturing. She constructed a worldview to explain human behavior, past and present, and to project her visions for the future. In her sociological and historical works she analyzed the past from the perspective of gender; in her fiction she illustrated the human drama embodied in contemporary social relations; and in her utopian works she suggested the kind of world we could have if we were persuaded to remake it. The place to begin, she argued, was in the ideological sphere; thus she saw herself as engaged in a struggle for the minds of women.

27. Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Author Pa Textbook Site for The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fourth EditionPaul Lauter, General Editor. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935) http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_ninet

Site Orientation Heath Orientation Timeline Access Author Profile Pages by: Fourth Edition Table of Contents Concise Edition Table of Contents Authors by Name Authors by Year ... Internet Research Guide Textbook Site for: The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Fourth Edition Paul Lauter, General Editor Charlotte Perkins Gilman Considered the leading intellectual in the woman's movement from the 1890s to 1920, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was widely known both in the United States and abroad for her incisive studies of woman's role and status in society. By the time of her death in 1935, all of her books were out of print, and in the intervening decades her ideas were largely forgotten. Since the 1970s her writings have been rediscovered—both the sociological analyses that made her popular in her own time, and her less widely known fiction, especially her short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper," regarded today as a classic of nineteenth-century literature. Establishing herself in California, Gilman began to write and lecture on suffrage and woman's rights, and on the social reforms advocated by the Nationalist clubs inspired by Edward Bellamy's Utopian novel Looking Backward (1888). In 1892 she published "The Yellow Wall-Paper." Based on her experience with Dr. Mitchell, it is an indictment of nineteenth-century medical attitudes toward women as well as a subtle analysis of the power politics of marriage. Rejected by the prestigious

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30. AbsoluteFacts.nl - Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Charlotte Perkins Gilman. De literaire carrière van de Amerikaanse schrijfsteren feministe Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (18601935) begon rond 1890. http://www.absofacts.com/literatuur/data/gilmancharlotteperkins.shtml

gratis nieuwsbrieven zoeken op het internet gratis downloads AbsoluteFigures.nl ... HierBestellen.nl Charlotte Perkins Gilman De literaire carrière van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en feministe Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) begon rond 1890. Zij werd bekend met gedichten, korte verhalen en sociale analyses, waarin zij het opnam voor de achtergestelde vrouw. De jeugd van Charlotte Perkins Gilman was moeilijk. Haar vader verliet het gezin en haar moeder moest werk gaan zoeken. Hierdoor verhuisde het gezin gemiddeld elk jaar. In 1884 trouwde Charlotte met de kunstenaar Charles W. Stetson, maar dit huwelijk duurde slechts kort. In 1900 trad zij voor de tweede keer in het huwelijksbootje. Charlotte werd meer en meer depressief. Uiteindelijk verliet zij haar tweede man, George H. Gilman en verhuisde naar California. In "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) schreef Gilman over de seksualiteit binnen het huwelijk. Op basis van haar eigen ervaring portretteerde zij een vrouw die door dokter en echtgenoot werd geïntimideerd. "Women and Economics" (1898) is een satirische analyse van de sociaal economische situatie van de Amerikaanse vrouw. Volgens Gilman werd de maatschappij tekort gedaan door de vrouw alleen voor huiselijke klusjes in te zetten.

31. Author Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) Author Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (18601935). Title The Yellow-Wallpaper .Movement/Period/School psychological realism. Genre short story. http://faculty.millikin.edu/~moconner.hum.faculty.mu/e232/wallpaper1.html

Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) Title: "The Yellow-Wallpaper" Movement/Period/School: psychological realism Genre: short story Date(s): Jan, 1892, in New England Magazine Characters: Protagonists first person narrator Antagonists John, the husband, Jennie Others Jane (alter ego) Setting(s): a colonial mansion Point-of-view: first person, written as diary record Plot summary: Major Critics: Gary Scharnhorst and Alfred Bendixen Commentary: I. Life and Works: dedicated to rigorous self-discipline and social improvement became one of the strongest turn-of-the-century feminist voices born Hartford, some good schooling artist and teacher married Charles Stetson, had child, became very depressed after divorce she felt free best writing at this point lectured to women's and labor groups in 1900 married cousin, George Gilman, much happier he provided much support for her writing Herland With Her in Ourland His Religion and Hers breast cancer caused her to commit suicide Typical treatment of the time, for various forms of "hysteria" included the "rest therapy." Here, a woman is not allowed to do much of anything. Cannot write, draw, etc. too much of a strain on her mind. Must pretty much stay up in her room all day and "rest." Often, when women showed signs of independence and broke the "norms" of masculine control, she was considered mentally ill and placed under such therapy. Like a person in an asylum, who cannot conform to social norms, he or she is locked away, until "better," (willing to conform).

32. Fiction: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Back to List Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935) LINKS Charlotte Perkins GilmanBiography http//www.mightymedia.com/webstock/center/text/webstock12.htm http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/gilman.htm

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33. Historic Humanist Series: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Historic Humanist Series. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935). July1999. American feminist and writer, best known for her book Women http://www.humanistsofutah.org/humanists/charlotte_perkins_gilman.html

Historic Humanist Series Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) July 1999 American feminist and writer, best known for her book Women and Economics (1898), which has become a feminist classic. She was born Charlotte Anna Perkins in Hartford, Connecticut. She was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design and worked as a teacher and commercial artist before devoting herself to feminism. Women and Economics denounces women's financial dependence on men and supports day-care programs and cooperative kitchens. These ideas are explored further in Gilman's books Concerning Children The Home (1903), and Human Work (1904). Gilman founded the journal Forerunner (1909-16), in which she published feminist stories and articles. She also lectured extensively on women's rights and other social issues. Gilman's other writings include "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), an account of her experience with depression; In This Our World (1893), a collection of poetry; The Man-made World (1911); and His Religion and Hers Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia

34. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 18601935 American social activist and writer. Women are human beings as much as men, by nature; and as http://www.edwardsly.com/gilman.htm

Charlotte Perkins Gilman American social activist and writer "Women are human beings as much as men, by nature; and as women, are even more sympathetic with human processes. To develop human life in its true powers we need fully equal citizenship for women." Introduction Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent social activist and leading theorist of the women's movement at the turn of the twentieth century. She examined the role of women in society and put forth her social theories in Women and Economics and other nonfiction books, while she developed her feminist ideals in her novels and short stories. Gilman is best known today for her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," in which she portrayed a young woman's mental breakdown based on her own experience. Believing society could be changed for the better for women through the use of reason, she wrote books to advance her ideas. Family deserted by father Uncle Tom's Cabin; Catherine Beecher, the prominent advocate of "domestic feminism"; and Isabella Beecher Hooker, an ardent suffragist (supporter of women's right to vote). But Gilman's primary childhood experience was a series of frequent moves to try to reduce the family's poverty. Suffers mental breakdown Writes "feminist manifesto" Women in Economics

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37. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Postbellum America, 18661913. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935. ByMachella Caldwell Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/gilman.htm

Postbellum America, 1866-1913 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935 By Machella Caldwell Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Charlotte Perkins was born July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Frederick Beecher Perkins and Mary Fitch Perkins. In 1869 her father deserted the family, and she and her mother went to live with his relatives. She received very little schooling but was profoundly affected by the views of her family. Influenced by the determination and self-reliance of her great aunts Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin , Catherine Beecher, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, as well as her mother, Perkins developed her views on "feminist convictions" and the desire to see social reform, as noted in "Charlotte Perkins Gilman." At an very early age she learned to be independent and worked as a teacher to support herself. In 1878 she attended the Rhode Island School of Design and became a commercial artist. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson ,who was also a artist, and they gave birth to a daughter a year later. After the birth of her daughter, Perkins suffered from depression that would haunt her the rest of her life. After divorcing Stetson in 1890, she married George Houghton Gilman in 1900. Perkins was an American feminist and social activist, as well as a writer. She decided to move to Pasadena, California, in 1888, where she wrote her most famous short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper." From 1894 to 1895 she was active in planning the California Women's Congresses, as well as founding the Women's Peace Party. She was known as a feminist writer who expressed her views and beliefs in her novels, short stories, and nonfiction works. Most of her writings were based on her own experiences that she faced from divorce to depression. In 1898 she published her best known nonfiction work

38. Charlotte Perkins Gilman their careers. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935) Her life and workas a social scientist and feminist. by Mary Beekman. Charlotte http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gilman.html

Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society Students, as part of an advanced seminar, examined and wrote about the lives of these women, their intellectual contributions, and the unique impact and special problems that being female had on their careers. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Her life and work as a social scientist and feminist. by Mary Beekman In order to understand Charlotte Perkins Gilman as writer and intellectual, we must first know something of her personal life. For, although Gilman tried to keep the two personae separate in her own lifetime, we inevitably see conflict in the reality of her experience. For example, in creating her autobiography The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Gilman painted a public image she felt women should emulate while the diaries she left behind reveal the frailties of common human existence (Hill, 1980, p. 6-7). (Biographical information compiled from: Kessler, Carol Farley (1995). Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her progress toward Utopia with selected writings . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. pages 14-40). Charlotte Perkins was born on July 3, 1860 to Frederick Beecher Perkins and Mary A. Fitch. It is with her parents that these dueling personae began to take shape as each was from a prominent Rhode Island family with conflicting worldviews. Frederick sprung from the Beecher family, one well known for its radicals including Isabella Beecher Hooker, a famous suffragist and Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist and the renowned author of

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Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History William P. Tishler, Producer Shane Hamilton, Web Editor Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Feminist author, lecturer (1860-1935) Born to a cultured family whose New England heritage dated back several generations, Charlotte Perkins nonetheless grew up poor and rootless. Her father abandoned the family soon after her birth and provided little support, leaving her mother to drift in search of work and charity. As a young adult, Perkins supported herself as an artist and teacher. Married at 23, she found domestic life unbearable and suffered a serious nervous breakdown. She gradually recovered, though elements of mental illness lingered throughout her life. Perkins soon settled into an independent career as lecturer and author which continued well into her 60s, foreswearing traditional feminine roles in her own life while criticizing them in her writing. She committed suicide in 1935, following her second husband's death and her own diagnosis with breast cancer. Her best-known writings span several genres. The short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892) dealt with mental illness in semi-autobiographical fashion. In the "feminist manifesto"

40. American Passages - Unit 6. Gothic Undercurrents: Authors Authors Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935) 5361 Frances BenjaminJohnston, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (c. 1900), courtesy of http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit06/authors-5.html

Home Channel Video Catalog About Us ... Contact Us Select a Different Unit 1. Native Voices 2. Exploring Borderlands 3. Utopian Promise 4. Spirit of Nationalism 5. Masculine Heroes 6. Gothic Undercurrents 7. Slavery and Freedom 8. Regional Realism 9. Social Realism 10. Rhythms in Poetry 11. Modernist Portraits 12. Migrant Struggle 13. Southern Renaissance 14. Becoming Visible 15. Poetry of Liberation 16. Search for Identity Gothic Undercurrents Unit Overview Using the Video Authors ... Activities Authors: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) ] Frances Benjamin Johnston, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (c. 1900), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62-49035]. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Activities This link leads to artifacts, teaching tips and discussion questions for this author. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Charlotte Perkins was raised by her mother. Her father abandoned the family shortly after her birth (her father was the nephew of siblings Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher). Gilman's mother moved her two children to her original home, Rhode Island, where she withheld physical expressions of love from them in an attempt to steel them against the future pain of broken relationships. Gilman worked as a governess, teacher, and greeting-card designer before reluctantly marrying Charles Stetson in 1884she had become increasingly aware that women did not receive equal rights, and she was concerned that as a new wife and mother she would have difficulty beginning a writing career. After the birth of her daughter, Gilman became depressed and was advised to seek bed rest and to limit her intellectual endeavors. This "cure" so frustrated Gilman that she nearly went mad, recovering by thrusting her energies into the American Woman Suffrage Association. Soon after, she composed "The Yellow Wall-paper" (1892), which was based on her experience with depression. When her marriage broke up, Gilman sent her daughter to live with her exhusband and his new wife, Gilman's former best friend. She married her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman, in 1900 and continued her writing career, producing books that advocated reform, including

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