Who is the author?:Glimans background

 

         Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860. As she grew up, she became very opinionated about women's rights.  Her family was a long line of writers feminists and people with psychological problems. Dew to Gilman growing up in a family of feminists, she "grew up with the knowledge that she had the right to be treated the same as anyone, man or woman, and was just as capable and her work and was just as capable in her work and in her personal life."("The Yellow Wallpaper":An Autobiography of Emotions by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2). I believe that Gilman did what was right and stuck up for herself. She also became a lecturer and racial economic theorist.  Gilman also struggled with these psychological problems. Gilman's doctor, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, diagnosed her with female hysteria. Her treatment was to sit at home and rest. He advised her to never touch a pen or pencil. This "treatment" made Gilman worst. She was told that she couldn't do something that she loved to do ; write. Secretly, Gilman would write to release her stress. Writing is a great way to release stress. It allows you to express your thoughts and clear your mind. "The Yellow Wallpaper" was Gilman's way to tell her story indirectly. Her experience of depression is "believed to have inspired her best-known short story "The Yellow Wallpaper""(biography.com). The story "The Yellow Wallpaper" was written very well and in a way that I have never seen before. Her writing includes imagery that made me feel in the story and like I was in the corner of the room watching the story play out. I could really picture the wallpaper when Gliman said "I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlasting. Up and dow and sideways they crawl, and those absurd,  unblinking eyes are everywhere. There is one place where two breaths didn't match, and the eyes go up and down the line, one a little higher than the other" (The Yellow Wallpaper 3). Even though Gilman wasn't respected till after her death, I believe she has many people that respect her now, including men.


 

NWHM. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935)

https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/charlotte-perkins-stetson-gilman/
I used this site to find out about Gilman's jobs.

Biography.com. Charlotte Perkins Gilman biography.
http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman-9311669
This website explains Gilman's life and is a biography on her.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper


"The Yellow Wallpaper":An Autobiography of Emotions by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.