‘An Elopement’ is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), first published in the San Francisco Call in July 1893. Running to just a few pages, ‘An Elopement’ is about a young woman who disappears from the small town where she lived with her mother and […]
‘The Widow’s Might’ is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), first published in Forerunner magazine in 1911. The story is about a widow who shocks her three children by announcing that she has been running her late husband’s ranch for several years and that she […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, an 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has the structure and style of a diary. This is in keeping with what the female narrator tells us: that she can only write down her experiences when her husband John is not around, since […]