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- Birth nameCharlotte Anna Perkins
- Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Perkins (formerly Mary Fitch Westcott) and Frederic Beecher Perkins. She had only one brother, Thomas Adie, who was fourteen months older, because a physician advised Mary Perkins that she might die if she bore other children. During Charlotte's infancy, her father moved out and abandoned his wife and children, leaving them in an impoverished state. Gilman was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.
- IMDb mini biography by: Paul Gerard Kennedy
- SpousesGeorge Houghton Gilman(1900 - May 4, 1934) (his death)Charles Walter Stetson(1884 - 1894) (divorced, 1 child)
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.
- Great-granddaughter of private sector religion exponent Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), grand-niece of famous Presbyterian minister and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and Uncle Tom's Cabin writer Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- Philosopher, writer, educator and activist who demanded equal treatment for women as the best means to advance society's progress.
- She died due to a self-prescribed overdose of chloroform because she had terminal breast cancer.
- Her famous short story _Yellow Wallpaper, The (1989) (TV)_ mirrored her own life (she also had a nervous breakdown after the birth of her daughter).
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