Charlotte perkins gilman

“Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman at her desk

“The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.” “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body."

Did a series of narratives for my favorite short story, The Yellow Wallpaper (by Charlotte Perkins Gilman), for my special studies in illustration cours... The Yellow Wallpaper I

Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote

At the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act that paved the way for universal suffrage, this ringing, turn-of-the-century denunciation of domestic servitude has not lost its bite

Thanks to “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” Gilman is often held up as an early feminist icon. A close reading of her work reveals something much more complicated.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman quotes on life and literature

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper, p. 651. Courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine.