Benigna Machiavelli
Author: first_name: Charlotte Perkins
last_name: Gilman
Language: English
Year: 1914

In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and <i>Herland</i> (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published this delightful fictional autobiography, <i>Benigna Machiavelli</i> (1914), in her monthly magazine, <i>The Forerunner</i>. 
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 The narrator, young Benigna MacAvelly, decides as a child that she intends to emulate her ancestor Niccolò Machiavelli but dedicate her machinations to doing good rather than evil. She starts her ingenious plotting very early in