Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(1860-1935)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Life
American Political and Cultural History
1860- She was born in Hartford [CPG2], [DLB], [AWW], [AMS].  
1861 - "Union forces defeated at the battle of Ball’s Bluff, Virginia." [BT], [TOAH].
1862 - "Lincoln signs the Homestead Act allowing citizens to acquire a parcel of land up to 160 acres farming it for five years." [BT]
   
1863 - "The Emancipation Proclamation is signed." [BT], [TOAH].
  - "Hawthorn, “Our Old Home”." [BT]
   
1868 - "The 14th Amendment denying women the right to vote is ratified." [WM], [TOAH]
  - "Women lawyers are licensed in U.S." [WM]
1869 - "Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women”." [BT]
1870 - "John D. Rockefeller founds the Stand Standard Oil Company." [BT], [TOAH].
- "The 15th Amendment enfranchising black men is ratified" [WM], [TOAH].
1871 -"The Indian Appropriation Act of
1871 marks a step backward." [BT], [TOAH].
   
1874 - "Women’s Christian Temperance Union founded in Cleveland." [BT], [TOAH].
1875 - "Civil Rights Act states that no citizen can be denied equal use of public facilities." [BT], [TOAH].
  - "The Supreme Court decision of Minor v. Happersett allows states to set suffrage requirements and denies women voting rights." [BT]
1876 - "Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone." [BT], [TOAH].
1877 - "Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph." [BT]
1878 - "Women’s Suffrage Amendment is introduced into Congress but fails." [BT]
  - "Edison establishes Edison Electric Light Company in New York City." [BT], [TOAH].
   
1882 - "John D. Rockefeller organizes the Standard Oil Trust " [BT]
   
1884-She married Charles Walter Stetson. [CCPG], [DLB].  
1885-Her first daughter Katherine Beecher Stetson was born. [CPG2]  
1887- Seperated form her husband. [DLB].  
1888- she and her doaughter moved to Pasadena, CA. [DLB].  
1890-"She wrote “The Yellow Wall Paper” which was based on her own experience." [CCPG]

- "Wyoming is first state to allow women to vote." [WM]
-"published her poem "Similar Cases"... and recieved a letter of raise from William Dean Howells a respected writer and editor of the Atlantic Monthly. [DLB].  
1891- She and her daoughter moved to Okland. [DLB].  
   
1894- "She divorced Charles Walter Stetson." [CCPG], [DLB], [AWW].  
   
1898-"She emerged as a spokesperson for topics like women’s perspectives on work and family." [CPG1]  
1899-“The Yellow Wall Paper” was published. [CCPG], [AWW].  
1900-She wrote “Concerning Children”. [CCPG], [DLB], [AWW].  
- "She remarried George Houghton Gilman her first cousin." [CPG1], [DLB].  
   
1904-She wrote “The Homer”. [CCPG], [AWW].  
   
1909-1916- She wrote a monthly periodical called The Forerunner.. [CCPG], [DLB], [AMS].  
1910-She wrote “What Diantha Did”. [CCPG], [AWW].  
1911-She wrote “The Crux”. [CCPG], [DLB], [AWW].  
   
1914-She wrote the short story “If I Were a Man”. [CPG3]  
1915-"She co-founded the Women’s Peace Party with the activist Jane Addams." [CPG1]  
- Herland was first serialized in The Forerunner. [DLB].  
1916- She discontinued The Forerunner. [DLB].  
1920 - "The 19th Amendment is ratified, allowing women the right to vote in federal elections." [WM], [TOAH].
   
   
1932- She learned that she had breast cancer. [CPG2], [DLB].  
   
1934-"Her husband George Gilman died unexpectedly." [CCPG], [DLB], [AWW]. - "Florence Ellinwood Allen becomes first woman on US Court of Appeals." [WM]
1935- "She took her own life before she became overwhelmed by cancer." [CPG1], [DLB], [AWW]. -Alcholics Anonymous was organized in New York City. [TOAH].
-"THe Living Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" was published. [DLB], [AWW].  

Sources

CPG2: Domestic Goddess Home Page.Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). 8/23/99
(http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/gilman1.html).

BT.: Campbell, Donna M. "1860-1935." Timeline: American Literature Sites. 01/08/2003.
(http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/timefram.html.)

CPG1: Mighty Media Writing Youth to the World.Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).
(http://www.teaching.com/EarthDay97/center/text/webstock12.htm).

CCPG: University Of Connecticut libraries.Connecticut Writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 1/07/99.
(http://www.cla.lib.ct.us/CTWriters/gilman.html).

CPG3: Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Visited last on 03/19/03.
(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman.htm).

WM.: History Channel website. Important Dates in the Women's Rights Movement.
( http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/woman/ timeline.html)

TOAH: Urdang, Laurence, ed .The Timetables of American History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

AMS: Hitchcock, B., Kouidis, V.M., & Current-Garcia, E. (2002) American Short Stories. New York. Longman.

AWW: Linda Mainereo ed. American Women Writers. 4 vols. Fredrick Ungar Publishing Co.: New York, 1981. Pages 131-133.

DLB: “Charlotte Perkins Gilman (3 July 1860- 17 August 1935)”. Dictionary Of Literary Biography. Volume 221: American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920, ed. 2000. Pages 148-158.