We will discuss seven short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) from the Dover Thrift collection, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper” and Other Stories, (available new for $3.16 (including tax) and accessible as PDF file). The stories are:
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” “Three Thanksgivings,” “The Cottagette,” “Turned,” “Making a Change,” “If I Were a Man,” and “Mr. Peebles’ Heart.”
Total reading is 70 pages. Gilman was a leading feminist intellectual and activist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a prolific and internationally read author. Her writings range from a utopian novel, Herland (1915), to such substantial books as Women and Economics (1898) and His Religion and Hers (1923).