‘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 […]
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A Summary and Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Widow’s Might’
‘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 […]
A Summary and Analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
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 […]