Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist
canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award
Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and a Granta Best Young American
Novelist
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose
poems, articles, short stories, and novels had a single focus: equality
for women. Although best known for "The Yellow Wall-Paper," her
spine-chilling takedown of the "rest cure" prescribed for postpartum
depression, Gilman spent her life advocating for a woman's right to an
education, to creative self-expression and economic self-sufficiency,
and an end to the consumerism that blinded women to the ways that
society held them back.
This collection brings together Gilman's best-known work with her
lesser-known satirical short stories to provide an overarching
introduction to this relentless ideologue.
The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on
their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of
resistance.