The Yellow Wallpaper
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George Orwell
Many people believe that a great deal of what was going on in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" between the narrator and John was due to the time period in which the story was written. This is true that women sort of did as their husbands told them and did not do anything to make things better for themselves. But I think what people were not taking into consideration is that there are situations like that still going on 100 years later. There are still many women that stay with men that abuse them even though there are many resources for them to escape the abuse.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Conneticut, the daughter of Fredrick Beecher Perkins, a librarian and writer, and Mary (Westcott) Perkins. Perkins abandoned his wife after their infant dies in 1866- Mary Perkins lived with her children on the brink of poverty and was often forced to move from relative to relative or to other temporary lodgings.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a voracious reader and largely self-educated.
In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson, an aspiring artist. After the birth of their daughter Katherine. she was beset by depression, and began treatment with Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell in 1886. His recommendations, 'live as domestic a life as possible' and 'never touch a pen, brush or pencil as long as you live' Gilman later satirized this in her autobioghraphy, and used the discussions in her most renowned short story, 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.
In 1888 Gilman separated from Stetson (divorced in 1894), and moved to California, where she wrote her first books in the 1890's.
Gilman married her cousin George Gillman, a New York lawyer, in 1902.
Annoyed with life in a multiracial metropolis, she moved in 1922 with her husband from New York to Norwich, Connecticut. In 1932 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After her husband died in 1934, she returned to California to live near her daughter. Gilman died on August 17, 1935, in Pasadena California-she ended her own life by taking on overdose of chloroform.
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