Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born July 3, 1860 in Hartford Connecticut. She grew to be an educated woman, in the times when woman weren't respected as men were. She believed woman should have equal rights. "Gilman grew up with the knowledge that she had the right to be treated the same as anyone, man or woman, and was just as capable in her work and in her personal life" (An Autobiography for Emotions, p2) But,she was not the only one in her family who had the same beliefs she did. "Gilman comes from a long list of freedom fighters for woman's rights;without having this type of influence throughout her life she would have never become the free thinker and advocate that she is famous for today" (An Autobiography of Emotions, p1) As brilliant and strong willed as she was, she also had a long string of mental issues in her family. This could arguably be her state in writing the Yellow Wallpaper, "mentally unstable". Unfortunatly in the end, Gilman could not take such phycological pain, unstableness, and tortute. She ended her own life by "huffing chloroform" at the age of 75. Her legacy lives on to this day with the fight for woman's rights. The Yellow Wallpaper continues to give us a glimpse into the emotional and pshycologically restraining societies women lived in back then.
Websites (for extra information) :
http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman-9311669
This website will tell you more background of Charlotte Gilman.
http://archive.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/gilman.html
This website will show you some of Charlottes works, while giving some background information.
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