Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Collected Poems

July 3, 1860 (Hartford, Connecticut)–August 17, 1935 (Pasadena, California)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote poetry as public argument: memorable, formally varied verse aimed at domestic convention, economic dependence, suffrage, religion, labor, and the structures limiting women’s lives. Her years in Pasadena from 1888 to 1893 were decisive. After leaving an intolerable marriage, she supported herself through art, teaching, writing, and lecturing, entered Southern California reform networks, and produced a remarkable body of poetry and prose. This edition brings together the expanded In This Our World and the nonduplicative contents of Suffrage Songs and Verses, preserving each book’s structure while recording later reprints rather than printing lightly revised poems twice.

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Catalogue

Reform, Labor & Radical Print

Associations

Feminism and Women’s Reform Left, Labor, and Socialism

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Bibliography

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. In This Our World. McCombs & Vaughn, 1893; expanded edition, Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.

———. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.

———. The Yellow Wall Paper. Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.

———. Concerning Children. Small, Maynard & Company, 1900.

———. The Home: Its Work and Influence. McClure, Phillips & Company, 1903.

———. Human Work. McClure, Phillips & Company, 1904.

———. What Diantha Did. Charlton Company, 1910.

———. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture. Charlton Company, 1911.

———. Moving the Mountain. Charlton Company, 1911.

———. Something to Vote For. National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1911.

———. Suffrage Songs and Verses. Charlton Company, 1911.

———. The Crux. Charlton Company, 1911.

———. Won Over. Charlton Company, 1911.

———. Benigna Machiavelli. Charlton Company, 1914.

———. Herland. 1915. First book edition, Pantheon, 1979.

———. With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland. 1916. First book edition, Greenwood Press, 1997.

———. His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers. Century Company, 1923.

———. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935.

———. The Forerunner. 7 vols., 1909–16.

Works About the Author

Allen, Polly Wynn. Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Architectural Feminism. University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Papers. Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester. Finding aid.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Papers, 1846–1961. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Collection record.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society. Gilman works online and research resources.

Davis, Cynthia J. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography. Stanford University Press, 2010.

Golden, Catherine J., editor. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Feminist Press, 1992.

Hill, Michael R. “Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell, 2007.

Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Knight, Denise D. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne, 1997.

Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Pantheon, 1990.

“Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman.” Poetry Foundation.

Rudd, Jill, and Val Gough, editors. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer. University of Iowa Press, 1999.