The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings: Charlotte Gilman

Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman`s mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story `The Yellow Wall-Paper`, Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive country from which men have been absent for 2,000 years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman`s major short stories and her poems.