The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Feminist Fiction, Essays, and Visions of Social ReformBy Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Length69h 3m
About this audiobook
The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman gathers the remarkable range of a writer whose fiction, poetry, and essays helped define early feminist modernity. From the psychological intensity of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" to the utopian vision of Herland and the polemical clarity of Women and Economics, these works combine realism, satire, Gothic unease, social theory, and reformist imagination. Read together, they reveal Gilman's sustained critique of domestic confinement, gendered labor, marriage, motherhood, and the economic structures that shaped women's lives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) wrote from lived experience as well as intellectual conviction. Her struggles with depression, her resistance to the "rest cure," her unconventional personal choices, and her involvement in feminist, socialist, and reform movements all informed her literary project. She understood writing as a tool of analysis and reconstruction, using narrative and argument to expose the cultural assumptions that limited women's autonomy. This collection is essential for readers interested in feminist literature, American intellectual history, and socially engaged fiction. It offers not only canonical texts but also the broader architecture of Gilman's thought, making it invaluable to scholars and general readers alike.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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Publish dateMay 21, 2015
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Table of contents
1The Woman Who Did (Annotated)
124III. TWO AND TWO TOGETHER.
2The Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays
125IV. THE BURNT CHILD DREADS THE SLIPPER.
3The Yellow Wallpaper
126V. TEACHABLE ETHICS.
4Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper (An Article by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1913)
127VI. A PLACE FOR CHILDREN.
5What Diantha Did
128VII. UNCONSCIOUS SCHOOLING.
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6CHAPTER I. HANDICAPPED
129VIII. PRESUMPTUOUS AGE.
7CHAPTER II. AN UNNATURAL DAUGHTER
130IX. THE RESPECT DUE TO YOUTH.
8CHAPTER III. BREAKERS
131X. TOO MUCH CONSIDERATION.
9CHAPTER IV. A CRYING NEED
132XI. SIX MOTHERS.
10CHAPTER V.
133XII. MEDITATIONS ON THE NURSE-MAID.
11CHAPTER VI. THE CYNOSURE.
134XIII. CHILDREN AND SERVANTS.
12CHAPTER VII. HERESY AND SCHISM.
135XIV. MOTHERS, NATURAL AND UNNATURAL.
13CHAPTER VIII.
136XV. SOCIAL PARENTAGE.
14CHAPTER IX. "SLEEPING IN."
137Women and Economics
15CHAPTER X. UNION HOUSE.
138PROEM
16CHAPTER XI. THE POWER OF THE SCREW.
139PREFACE
17CHAPTER XII. LIKE A BANYAN TREE
140I.
18CHAPTER XIII. ALL THIS.
141II.
19CHAPTER XIV. AND HEAVEN BESIDE.
142III.
20The Crux
143IV.
21PREFACE
144V.
22CHAPTER I THE BACK WAY
145VI.
23CHAPTER II. BAINVILLE EFFECTS.
146VII.
24CHAPTER III. THE OUTBREAK
147VIII.
25CHAPTER IV TRANSPLANTED
148IX.
26CHAPTER V CONTRASTS
149X.
27CHAPTER VI NEW FRIENDS AND OLD
150XI.
28CHAPTER VII. SIDE LIGHTS.
151XII.
29CHAPTER VIII. A MIXTURE.
152XIII.
30CHAPTER IX. CONSEQUENCES.
153XIV.
31CHAPTER X. DETERMINATION.
154XV.
32CHAPTER XI. THEREAFTER.
155A Small God And A Large Goddess
33CHAPTER XII. ACHIEVEMENTS.
156Introducing The World, The Flash, and The Devil
34Moving the Mountain
157Where The Heart Is
35Preface
158Why We Honestly Fear Socialism
36Chapter 1.
159The Poor Relation
37Chapter 2.
160Reasonable Resolutions
38Chapter 3
161Private Morality And Public Immorality
39Chapter 4.
162The Humanness Of Women
40Chapter 5.
163The Barrel
41Chapter 6
164Kitchen-mindedness
42Chapter 7
165Parlor-mindedness
43Chapter 8
166Nursery-mindedness
44Chapter 9
167Naughty
45Chapter 10
168A Village Of Fools
46Chapter 11
169Believing And Knowing
47Chapter 12.
170The House Of Apples
48Herland
171Ten Suggestions
49CHAPTER 1. A Not Unnatural Enterprise
172Genius, Domestic And Maternal
50CHAPTER 2. Rash Advances
173Prisoners:
51CHAPTER 3. A Peculiar Imprisonment
174A Man In Prison
52CHAPTER 4. Our Venture
175A Woman In Prison
53CHAPTER 5. A Unique History
176Improved Methods Of Habit Culture
54CHAPTER 6. Comparisons Are Odious
177Only An Hour
55CHAPTER 7. Our Growing Modesty
178Wholesale Hypnotism
56CHAPTER 8. The Girls of Herland
179The Kitchen Fly
57CHAPTER 9. Our Relations and Theirs
180Her Pets
58CHAPTER 10. Their Religions and Our Marriages
181What Virtues Are Made Of
59CHAPTER 11. Our Difficulties
182Animals In Cities
60CHAPTER 12. Expelled
183While The King Slept
61With Her in Ourland: sequel to Herland
184The Beauty Women Have Lost
62Chapter 1 The Return
185Is It Wrong To Take Life?
63Chapter 2 War
186The World And The Three Artists
64Chapter 3 A Journey of Inspection
187Woman And The State
65Chapter 4 Nearing Home
188Why Texts?
66Chapter 5 My Country
189Women Teachers, Married And Unmarried
67Chapter 6 The Diagnosis
190Christmas Love
68Chapter 7 In Our Homes
191Our Overworked Instincts
69Chapter 8 More Diagnosis
192The Permanent Child
70Chapter 9
193The New Motherhood
71Chapter 10
194How We Waste Three-fourths Of Our Money
72Chapter 11
195The Nun In The Kitchen
73Chapter 12
196Then This
74Three Thanksgivings
197Arrears
75According To Solomon
198How Doth The Hat
76A Middle-sized Artist
199Thanksgiving
77When I Was A Witch
200Thanksong
78A Coincidence
201Love
79The Cottagette
202Steps
80Mr. Robert Grey Sr.
203Child Labor
81The Boys And The Butter
204His Crutches
82My Astonishing Dodo
205Get Your Work Done
83A Word In Season
206A Central Sun, a song
84Turned
207Locked Inside
85The Giant Wistaria
208Here Is The Earth
86The Man –Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
209The "Anti" And The Fly
87I. AS TO HUMANNESS.
210Two Prayers
88II. THE MAN-MADE FAMILY.
211Before Warm February Winds
89III. HEALTH AND BEAUTY.
212Little Leafy Brothers
90IV. MEN AND ART.
213A Walk Walk Walk
91V. MASCULINE LITERATURE.
214Ode To A Fool
92VI. GAMES AND SPORTS
215The Sands
93VII. ETHICS AND RELIGION.
216Water-lure
94VIII. EDUCATION.
217Aunt Eliza
95IX. "SOCIETY" AND "FASHION"
218The Cripple
96X. LAW AND GOVERNMENT.
219When Thou Gainest Happiness
97XI. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.
220For Fear
98XII. POLITICS AND WARFARE.
221His Agony
99WOMAN AND THE STATE
222Brain Service
100XIII. INDUSTRY AND ECONOMICS.
223The Kingdom
101XIV. A HUMAN WORLD.
224Heaven Forbid!
102The Home: Its Works and Influence
225The Puritan
103TWO CALLINGS
226The Malingerer
104I INTRODUCTORY
227May Leaves
105II THE EVOLUTION OF THE HOME
228The Room At The Top
106III DOMESTIC MYTHOLOGY
229A Bawling World
107IV PRESENT CONDITIONS
230O Faithful Clay!
108V THE HOME AS A WORKSHOP
231We Eat At Home
109VI THE HOME AS A WORKSHOP
232The Earth's Entail
110VII HOME-COOKING
233Alas!
111VIII DOMESTIC ART
234"The Outer Reef!"
112IX DOMESTIC ETHICS
235To-morrow Night
113X DOMESTIC ENTERTAINMENT
236The Waiting-Room
114XI THE LADY OF THE HOUSE
237Only Mine
115XII THE CHILD AT HOME
238A Question
116XIII THE GIRL AT HOME
239In How Little Time
117XIV HOME INFLUENCE ON MEN
240The Socialist And The Suffragist
118XVHOME AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
241Worship
119XVI LINES OF ADVANCE
242The Little White Animals
120XVII RESULTS
243Many Windows
121Concerning Children
244In A Much
122I. THE PRECIOUS TEN.
245Love's Highest
123II. THE EFFECT OF MINDING ON THE MIND.
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