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  • Published: 2 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473522428
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper




The centenary edition of Herland, by the author of the classic feminist short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result...


What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result...

When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? In fact, what they have found is a civilisation free from disease, poverty and the weight of tradition. All alone, the women have created a society of calm and prosperity, a feminist utopia that dares to threaten the very concept of male superiority.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LINDY WEST

  • Published: 2 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473522428
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendant of the prominent and influential Beecher family. In 1884 she married Charles Water Stetson. After giving birth, Charlotte sank into a deep depression. She entered a sanitarium in Philadelphia to undergo the 'rest cure', a controversial treatment, which forbade any type of physical activity or intellectual stimulation. 1892, she published the now-famous story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'. In 1898, her most famous nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published. With its publication, and subsequent translation into seven languages, Gilman earned international acclaim. In 1900, she married her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman. Over the next thirty-five years, she wrote and published hundreds of stories and poems and more than a dozen books.

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Praise for Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper

This is a Utopian novel by a feminist set in the Amazon rainforest - and it is funny... Prepare for a feminist lecture, but one that does not lose sight of the need to entertain

Guardian

Prolific, ambitious, and deeply earnest in her desire to make the world more just for women, Gilman's long career as a speaker and writer inspired countless women to work for change. Her status as one of the most important feminist thinkers of the Progressive Era is undeniable

Feminist Collections

It was so radical that more than 50 years passed before society began to catch up with its feminism.

Radio Times