On the date of July 3,1860, in Hertford, Connecticut, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born. She was the daughter to parents Mary Ann Fitch Westcott and Frederick Perkins. Charlotte's father abandoned the family, after two of Charlotte's siblings died and Mary was told to not have anymore babies. With their father abandoning them, it left the family in enormous poverty. Being in extreme …show more content…
This left Mary hard at work to provide for her kids. Without time being spent with her mom or dad, Charlotte grew extremely self reliant and emotional independent. At the age of eighteen, Grumman attended the Rhode Island School of Design, in 1878. IN these years, she supported herself through her ability to tutor and being a artist of trade cards. Seven years later, Grimman married a man named Charles Walter Stetson, in the year 1884, the two of them dated the previous year. Three months into their marriage, Charlotte became pregnant with a baby girl, this became had for Grimman as she began to struggle from depression. With the birth of her daughter Katherine in the year 1885, Grill Man became overwhelmed with her depression. The depression she suffered through was so bad that she received a request from her doctor to endure the “rest cure”. Gilman was not a fan of the “rest cure,” as she only performed it for a few months and bashed it in one of her story’s “The Yellow Paper.” Gilman and her husband Stenton did not have a healthy relationship, as they seperated and Gilman moved to California. The couple eventually split in the year of 1894, and Gilman lost custody of her daughter, as Katherine went to live with Stenton. Gilman found …show more content…
Gilman became active in writing about women, because she was feminist and wanted women to gain economic power. Also, Gulaman can express her ideas and opinions on women's rights. Charlotte broke the ground in literature, as she became one of the first woman to ever break the traditional barber. She would write opinionated stories that in that time would be considered offensive. She was ahead of women of her time, as she was one of the only women speaking up about women's rights. Also, she wasn't afraid of expressing her opinion on issues, not caring if she offended