Herland and Other Works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Overview

HERLAND AND OTHER WORKS contains seven works by feminist writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, including her utopian novel HERLAND and her semi-autobiographical short story THE YELLOW WALLPAPER.

In HERLAND, Gilman describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

• Herland
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• If I Were a Man
• The Giant Wistaria
• Our Androcentric Culture
• The Crux
• What Diantha Did

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012574466
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	05/25/2011
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	555 KB

About the Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) spent an impoverished youth in Rhode Island. After marriage and divorce, she became involved in several feminist and reformist organizations while living in California in the 1890s. She supported herself through writing and editing. Her utopian novel, HERLAND, appeared in serialized form in 1915. It was not published in book form until 1979.