Gilman, Charlotte Anna (1860–1935)

US feminist socialist poet, novelist, and historian, author of Women and Economics (1898), proposing the ending of the division between ‘men's work’ and ‘women's work’ by abolishing housework. Her best-known story, a classic of 19th-century feminist literature, is ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper Story’.

From 1909 to 1916 she wrote and published a magazine called The Forerunner, in which her feminist Utopian novel Herland (1915) was serialized.