Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860 to 1935), born Perkins and also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist and advocate for social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States and is regarded in modern terms as a socialist feminist. Her works focused primarily on gender, and in particular on the gendered division of labor in society and the problem of male supremacism. She is best known for her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper of 1892, her manifesto for women's economic independence, Women and Economics of 1898, and the utopian feminist novel Herland of 1915. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.