Browsing the archives for the charlotte perkins gilman tag
Browsing the archives for the charlotte perkins gilman tag
It’s that time of year again, and after posting the 2009 meme yesterday, I’m back today with Kirsty’s Official Top 10 Books of 2009. For those who are on the Palimpsest forum, this list is already up there, and I reserve the right to edit this should something come along in the next two weeks [...]
…this time from the Telegraph, where Justine Picardie investigates Charlotte PG’s life.
Gilman clearly suffered from the loss of her father (a librarian and editor who wrote infrequent letters, but occasionally sent books to his children), and also from the absence of affection shown to her by her mother. According to her memoir, her mother gave [...]
Delighted to see in The Guardian today an extract from Maggie O’Farrell’s introduction to the new Vintage Classics edition of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I cannot put into words how much I adore The Yellow Wallpaper. I demand you all go and read this article, and then the story itself.
Motherhood did not [...]