Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was the author of novels, short stories, poems, and works of nonfiction. She is best known for “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892), Women and Economics (1898), and the novel Herland (1915). Her novel The Crux (1910) is also published by Duke University Press. Charlotte J. Rich is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. She is editor of The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Charlotte J. Rich 1
Dedication to the Housewife 25
I. Handicapped 27
II. An Unnatural Daughter 37
III. Breakers 52
IV. A Crying Need 63
V. A Friend in Need 72
VI. The Cynosure 84
VII. Heresy and Schism 93
VIII. “Locked Inside” 104
IX. “Sleeping In 114
X. Union House 127
XI. The Power of the Screw 136
XII. Like a Banyan Tree 155
XIII. All This 169
XIV. And Heaven Beside 180
