Charlotte Perkins Gilman is known as one of the foremost literary feminists who sought to manifest the cultural stereotypes attached to women in the late 19th century. As stated in the website of Facts on File, she was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860. She belonged to the famous Beecher family – which included Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary Fitch Westcott. Her own father abandoned her and her mother, and this caused the mother and daughter team to move so many times in almost as many years, oftentimes surrounded by poverty and difficulty. She was however successful in finishing a Continue reading...