![]() ![]() In the early 1890s, she began a career in writing and lecturing, and in 1892, she published the now-famous story “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” A volume of poems, In This Our World, followed a year later. In 1888, she left Stetson and moved with her daughter to California, where her recovery was swift. After a month, she returned to her husband and child and subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown. ![]() She eventually entered a sanitarium in Philadelphia to undergo the “rest cure,” a controversial treatment for nervous prostration, which forbade any type of physical activity or intellectual stimulation. Charlotte Stetson became pregnant almost immediately after their marriage, gave birth to a daughter, and sank into a deep depression that lasted for several years. In 1882, however, at the age of twenty-one, she was introduced to Charles Walter Stetson (1858-1911), a handsome Providence, Rhode Island, artist, and the two were married in 1884. ![]() ![]() At an early age she vowed never to marry, hoping instead to devote her life to public service. Her father abandoned the family when she was a child, and she received just four years of formal education. Despite the affluence of her famous ancestors, she was born into poverty. THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER, HERLAND, AND SELECTED WRITINGSĬHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendant of the prominent and influential Beecher family. CHAPTER X - Their Religions and Our Marriages ![]()
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