Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Poems Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Art Gems for the Home and Fireside"/ "This Our World"

In 1888 Perkins-Gilman published her first book, Art Gems for the Home and Fireside (1888); however, it was her first volume of poetry, In This Our World (1893), a collection of satirical poems, that first brought her recognition. During the next two decades she gained much of her fame with lectures on women's issues, ethics, labor, human rights, and social reform. She often referred to these themes in her fiction.[1] Her lecture tours took her across the United States.[1] [24]

"Women and Economics"

In 1894–95 Gilman served as editor of the magazine The Impress, a literary weekly that was published by the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association (formerly the Bulletin). For the twenty weeks the magazine was printed, she was consumed in the satisfying accomplishment of contributing its poems, editorials, and other articles. The short-lived paper's printing came to an end as a result of a social bias against her lifestyle which included being an unconventional mother and a woman who had divorced a man.[33] After a four-month-long lecture tour that ended in April 1897, Gilman began to think more deeply about sexual relationships and economics in American life, eventually completing the first draft of Women and Economics (1898). This book discussed the role of women in the home, arguing for changes in the practices of child-raising and housekeeping to alleviate pressures from women and potentially allow them to expand their work to the public sphere.[34] The book was published in the following year and propelled Gilman into the international spotlight.[35] In 1903, she addressed the International Congress of Women in Berlin. The next year, she toured in England, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Hungary.

"The Home: Its Work and Influence"

In 1903 she wrote one of her most critically acclaimed books, The Home: Its Work and Influence, which expanded upon Women and Economics, proposing that women are oppressed in their home and that the environment in which they live needs to be modified in order to be healthy for their mental states. In between traveling and writing, her career as a literary figure was secured.[36]

"The Forerunner,"

From 1909 to 1916 Gilman single-handedly wrote and edited her own magazine, The Forerunner, in which much of her fiction appeared. By presenting material in her magazine that would "stimulate thought", "arouse hope, courage and impatience", and "express ideas which need a special medium", she aimed to go against the mainstream media which was overly sensational.[37] Over seven years and two months the magazine produced eighty-six issues, each twenty eight pages long. The magazine had nearly 1,500 subscribers and featured such serialized works as "What Diantha Did" (1910), The Crux (1911), Moving the Mountain (1911), and Herland (1915). The Forerunner has been cited as being "perhaps the greatest literary accomplishment of her long career".[38] After its seven years, she wrote hundreds of articles that were submitted to the Louisville Herald, The Baltimore Sun, and the Buffalo Evening News. Her autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which she began to write in 1925, was published posthumously in 1935.[39]

Works by Perkins-Gilman

Non-fiction

• Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. (1898)
• Concerning Children (1900)
• The Home: Its Work and Influence. (1903)
• Human Work.(1904)
• The Man-Made World; or, Our Andocentric Culture (1911)
• Our Brains and What Ails Them (1912)
• Humanness (1913)
• Social Ethics (1914)
• The Dress of Women(1915)
• Growth and Combat (1916)
• His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers (1923)
• The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. (1935)

Fiction

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" 5 [January], (1892).
• The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
• What Diantha Did (1910)
• Moving the Mountain (1911)
• The Crux. (1911)
• Benigna Machiavelli (1916)
• Herland (1915)
• With Her in Ourland (1916)

Poetry

• Oakland, California: McCombs & Vaughn (1893)
• Suffrage Songs and Verses New York: The Charlton Company. (1911)