Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, a great niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Among the 200 short stories and books she wrote during her lifetime areThe Man-Made World,Human Work, and a major text of the women's movement,Women and Economics. In 1935, suffering from advanced breast cancer, she committed suicide in Pasadena, California. Denise D. Knight is a professor of English at SUNY Cortland in Cortland, New York, and is the author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction.