Charlotte Gilman was born on July 3, 1860; in Hartford Connecticut. Her father was a well known man who was often busy. He left the family leaving Charlottes mother in charge of two children. They ended up moving frequently, this meant difficulty for Charlotte as a child. Charlotte could never learn to keep a friendship and often had trouble with schoolwork because each school was learn different things. She married a man named Charles Stetson in 1884 and had a child with him, named Katherine. Their marriage didn't last long until she fell for a man named John, they soon fell in love and got married but during this whole story Charlotte quotes "You see he does not believe I am sick"(1). So she feels that he loves her but thinks that "her sickness is all in [her] head"(1) That is when she wrote in her secret journal which is now know to be called
The Yellow Wallpaper (1899).
http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman-9311669
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman
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This is Charlotte Gilman as a kid. She is about at the age where she started moving a lot.
Gilman background information: born: July 3, 1860
died: August 17, 1935
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I agree that Gilman probably had trouble as a child. That would have been incredibly hard, to go through that. She was kind of like her father in a way, because they both left their families. And they both left to work.
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