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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper
that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the
most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking,
feminist writing. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and
Herland are extraordinary for scrutinising the patriarchal norms of
turn-of-the-century America. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman
frantically paces the empty nursery at the top of a secluded
mansion. Her husband John, a physician, is of no comfort and she
can't bear to sit with the new baby as his crying makes her much
too nervous. And then there's the putrid, yellow wallpaper which
seems to shift and creep around the room before her very eyes...
Herland, first published in 1915, follows a group of three men as
they arrive in a female-only society. Peace and tranquillity thrive
in this utopian land, forcing the explorers to question how their
own corrupted, male-dominated world can survive.
"In place of happy love, lonely pain. In place of motherhood,
disease. Misery and shame, child. Medicine and surgery, and never
any possibility of any child for me." First published in her
magazine The Forerunner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Crux is an
emotive tale on the nuances of female independence, social
expectation and love in early 20th century America. Following an
all-female group who move west to open a boarding house for men,
The Crux focuses on the experience of Vivian and her desire for the
undesirable. Deeply in love with Morton, a charismatic young man
infected with both syphilis and gonorrhea, Vivian's expected
journey through her 'marriage' years is abruptly turned upside
down. Torn by her personal intuition, the advice provided by her
female companions and the knowledge that Morton will never give her
healthy children, Vivian is faced with a permanent choice to
forfeit love for the benefit of future generations. Balancing
female and male perspectives on illness, personal preservation and
nationalism, The Crux tracks Vivian's path through heart break,
emotional development and female camaraderie. As an allegory for
Gilman's own branch of utopian feminism, The Crux is a story of
sacrifice and partnership deliberation within the framework of 20th
century disease hysteria, eugenic ideology and developing
modernism. Often omitted from her writing canon, The Crux is an
integral aspect to understanding not only Gilman's own writing but
the history of feminism as a whole.
Gilman created a world that could be viewed from the feminist gaze.
She focused on how women were not just stay-at-home mothers they
were expected to be but also people who had dreams, who were able
to travel and work just as men did, and whose goals included a
society where women were just as important as men. In the early
1900s this was striking and revolutionary. The stories in this
collection are: 'A Coincidence'; 'According To Solomon', 'An
Offender', 'A Middle-Sized Artist', 'Martha's Mother', 'Her
Housekeeper', 'When I Was A Witch', 'Making a Living', 'A
Coincidence, The Cottagette', 'The Boys and the Butter', 'My
Astonishing Dodo', and 'A Word In Season'.
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Herland (Paperback)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Introduction by Alex Goody
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A lost-world fantasy in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle and the
Utopianism of William Morris, Herland inverted expectations with
its exclusively female society visited by three men from the
Edwardian era. An early example of feminist science fiction, this
utopian fantasy explores miracle births, role reversals and
concepts of peace and freedom. Flame Tree 451 presents a new
series, The Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a
quiet revolution in literature previously dominated by male
adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the
male gaze to write from a different gender perspective, sometimes
with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom
to write on any subject whatsoever. Each book features a brand new
biography and a glossary of literary terms.
What happens when a woman is pushed too far? Is she able to express
her thoughts and feelings, or is she forced towards the expectation
of behaving 'normally' again soon? A woman travels with her husband
to an old colonial mansion after a nervous breakdown triggered by
the birth of their child. Confined to the nursery and allowed only
to breathe fresh air, eat well and rest in line with a regimented
'cure', she slowly begins to unravel at the seams. Her only
distraction is writing in secret - that, and the woman she begins
to see trapped inside the yellow wallpaper of the room itself.
Isolated and breaking apart, she sets herself a task: to free the
woman, and to become one with her temporary confinement. Charlotte
Perkins-Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' presents a harrowing,
disturbing account of mental stress, confinement and female turmoil
- within which the only available solace can be found inside four
peeling, sickly yellow walls...
In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and
created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a
warning - in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a
room and forbidden to do anything interesting - and she loses her
mind. In 1887, following a severe nervous breakdown, Gilman had
been sent to a leading neurologist, she explains in 'Why I Wrote
The Yellow Wallpaper', also included in this volume. He was a 'wise
man' who 'put me to bed and applied the rest cure... and sent me
home with solemn advice to "live as domestic a life as far as
possible"... and "never to touch pen, brush or pencil again" as
long as I lived. I went home and obeyed those directions for some
three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin
that I could see over.' The Yellow Wallpaper is both a haunting
illustration of the treatment of mental health and a chilling
Gothic tale, and this new edition makes it ready to enchant another
generation of readers.
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Gothic Horror Short Stories (Hardcover)
Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Frederic Benson, Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, …
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper
that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the
most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking,
feminist writing. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and
Herland are extraordinary for scrutinising the patriarchal norms of
turn-of-the-century America. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman
frantically paces the empty nursery at the top of a secluded
mansion. Her husband John, a physician, is of no comfort and she
can't bear to sit with the new baby as his crying makes her much
too nervous. And then there's the putrid, yellow wallpaper which
seems to shift and creep around the room before her very eyes...
Herland, first published in 1915, follows a group of three men as
they arrive in a female-only society. Peace and tranquillity thrive
in this utopian land, forcing the explorers to question how their
own corrupted, male-dominated world can survive.
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Virginia's Sisters (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald, Anna Akhmatova, Marina TSvetaeva, Gabriela Mistral, …
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A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist
contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work,
discrimination, war, relationships and love in the early part of
the 20th Century. Includes works by English and American writers
Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall,
Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and
Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered 'sisters'
from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international
array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in
Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania,
Russia, Spain and Ukraine.
Van Jennings, a sociology student, and his two friends, Terry
Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, set out one day to explore an
uncharted area said to be home to a colony consisting entirely of
women. Their biplane suitably hidden in the surrounding forest, the
men begin their search for civilisation. But it is not long before
they are discovered, and they are captured and taken in by the
society they set out to study. As boundaries are broken down and
the web of mystery is brushed aside, the men soon begin to realise
that there is much to be envied about this society, and perhaps it
is they that have some reckoning to do. Dealing with the powerful
themes of consent, consumerism and colonialism, Herland is a
thought-provoking tale that trains a lens on our own concepts of
society.
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Herland (Paperback)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and
infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with
barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for
'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist
horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its
portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally
nothing to do. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for
Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge
range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the
world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride
over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra
del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here
are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays
satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives
of millions. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Gilman's work is
available in Penguin Classics in The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland and
Selected Writings.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a pioneering sociologist,
feminist pragmatist, author, and lecturer. A skilled and perceptive
writer, she explained sociological concepts and principles clearly
and concisely to popular audiences. This volume presents a focused
and provocative set of Gilman's penetrating analyses of marriage,
motherhood, and family relationships. Generally unavailable, except
in archives and special libraries, the lion's share of the analyses
are drawn directly from Gilman's quintessentially unique
self-published journal, The Forerunner. Transcending her era,
Gilman speaks with wit, insight, and candor to twenty-first century
readers about many controversial aspects of family and family life.
She believes deeply that women's values regeneration, cooperation,
and compassion make for better societies. Men's values, she
concludes, are destructive, competitive, and often violent.
Families produce double standards and inequalities between husbands
and wives, resulting in inferior mothers and, as a direct
consequence, in substandard children. To improve society, Gilman
argues, we need healthy, happy children. This requires
well-trained, competent mothers, widespread social parenting, and
enlightened, non-patriarchal marriages. Largely self-taught, Gilman
supported herself through writing and lecturing. She was at one
time a settlement house leader and an active member of the American
Sociological Society. Her wide sociological circle included lasting
friendships with Jane Addams, Edward A. Ross, and Lester F. Ward.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a pioneering
sociologist, feminist pragmatist, author, and lecturer. A skilled
and perceptive writer, she explained sociological concepts and
principles clearly and concisely to popular audiences. This volume
presents a focused and provocative set of Gilman's penetrating
analyses of marriage, motherhood, and family relationships.
Generally unavailable, except in archives and special libraries,
the lion's share of the analyses are drawn directly from Gilman's
quintessentially unique self-published journal, The Forerunner.
Transcending her era, Gilman speaks with wit, insight, and
candor to twenty-first century readers about many controversial
aspects of family and family life. She believes deeply that women's
values--regeneration, cooperation, and compassion--make for better
societies. Men's values, she concludes, are destructive,
competitive, and often violent. Families produce double standards
and inequalities between husbands and wives, resulting in inferior
mothers and, as a direct consequence, in substandard children. To
improve society, Gilman argues, we need healthy, happy children.
This requires well-trained, competent mothers, widespread social
parenting, and enlightened, non-patriarchal marriages.
Largely self-taught, Gilman supported herself through writing
and lecturing. She was at one time a settlement house leader and an
active member of the American Sociological Society. Her wide
sociological circle included lasting friendships with Jane Addams,
Edward A. Ross, and Lester F. Ward.
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The Yellow Wallpaper (Paperback)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Contributions by Mint Editions
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First appearing in 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper is a searing vision of
a distinctively feminine form of madness and commands attention as
an arresting tale of horror and a moving look into a woman's mind.
The story uncompromisingly thrusts the reader into the mind of the
narrator. She is a woman forced, ostensibly for her own good, into
a 'rest cure', a psychological straitjacket so constricting that
she begins to unravel. Her mental dissolution is described with
such fierce immediacy that The Yellow Wallpaper has been read and
anthologized as a chilling horror tale. While it can easily be
appreciated for its disorienting thrills, the story's true
resonance comes from its matter-of-fact portrayal of a woman pushed
to the rim of sanity by society's demands and her family's utter
inability to conceive of the fact that she cannot fit within their
strictures. Shot through with unforgettable images of the yellow
wallpaper, its shadowy depths and what seems to lurk there, The
Yellow Wallpaper builds to a climax that combines the narrative
impact of an Edgar Allan Poe story with a wrenching protest of the
treatment of women. Unique and genre-bending, Gilman's story was
unrivaled in its era and its power endures undiminished today. With
an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of The Yellow Wallpaper is both modern and readable.
Seven thought-provoking stories employ charm and humor to examine relations between the sexes from a feminist perspective. In addition to the title story, an 1892 classic that recounts a woman's descent into madness, this collection includes "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles' Heart," and more.
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A superb collection of fiction and poetry from a major feminist
voice in American literature Wonderfully sardonic and slyly
humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist
thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her
frustration with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in
America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her
chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her
unforgettable 1892 short story ?The Yellow Wall-Paper, ? Gilman
also wrote Herland, a cunning, wry novel that imagines a peaceful,
progressive, environmentally conscious country from which men have
been absent for two thousand years. Both are included in this
volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and
her poems.
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