The Yellow Wallpaper by Charolette Perkins Gillman

Charolette Perkins Gilman lived from 1860 to 1935. She was born into poverty and only had four years of formal schooling. When she was young, Charolette wanted to be a public servant and not get married. This changed when she was 21. She married Charles Stetson two years later and had a daughter. Charolette fell into a deep depression for several years following her daughter's birth. She was sent to a sanitarium and given the "rest treatment" for a month. When this did not work, she moved to California with her daughter and became a writer.

Charolette wrote several books and poems including The Yellow Wallpaper in 1892. Her book Women and Economics was translated into seven languages after it was published in 1898. In 1932 she learned she had breast caner and committed suicide at the age of 75.

In 1994 Charolette Perkins Gilman was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in New York.

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