Author Bibliography (in progress)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was the daughter of Mary Anne Westcott and Frederic Beecher Perkins, who was the eldest son of Mary Foote Beecher and Thomas Clap Perkins. Mary Foote Beecher (Gilman’s paternal grandmother) was 
the sister of Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, making them Charlotte’s great-aunts. She devoted her life to women's rights and comprehensive proposals for social reform, serving as a delegate to the International Socialist and Labor Congress in 1896. Throughout her work, Gilman proposes a centralized home that outsources much of the work that is currently considered “feminine” (cooking/cleaning), in order to make it more efficient, safer, and better for society’s health. When this work is done by professionals, women are free to pursue other careers, though Gilman is explicit in citing motherhood as the ideal to which all women should aspire.
The two utopian novels in her trilogy, Herland and Moving the Mountain, clearly depict veganism (Herland) and vegetarianism (Moving the Mountain) as the ideal future towards which society should move. Animals have largely been removed from both societies: in the latter, dogs and cats are still kept in the countryside, while in Herland the women keep cats to control rodents that threaten the food supply. Slaughterhouses and livestock farms still exist in Moving the Mountain, where the animals are killed “more humanely.”
IMAGE: 3 July 1860. via Wikimedia, Public domain.
PUBLICATIONS
"The American Government." Woman's Column Vol. 9, no. 22 (6 June 1896): 4.
"The Automobile as a Reformer." Saturday Evening Post Vol. 171, no. 49 (3 June 1899): 778.
“The Beast Prison.” The Forerunner Vol. 3, no. 11 (Nov. 1912): 128-130.
"The Beauty of a Block." Independent Vol. 57, no. 2902 (14 July 1904): 67–72.
"Bee Wise." The Forerunner Vol. 4, no. 7 (July 1913): 169–173.
"Bellamy Memorial Meeting." American Fabian Vol. 4, no. 6 (June 1898): 2-3.
“Benigna Machiavelli.” The Forerunner. Vol. 5 (1914).
“Birds, Bugs and Women.” The Forerunner Vol. 4, no. 5 (May 1913): 131-132.
"Birth Control, Religion and the Unfit." Nation 27 January 1932: 108–109.
"The Cattle Train." The Forerunner Vol. 2, no. 63 (March 1911): 67.
"Causes and Uses of the Subjection of Women." Woman's Journal Vol. 29, no. 53 (24 December 1898): 410.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Nonfiction Reader. Ed. Larry Ceplair. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
"Children's Clothing." Harper's Bazaar 44 (1910): 24.
Concerning Children. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1900. London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
"Concerning Clothes." Independent (22 June 1918): 478, 483.
The Crux: a Novel. New York: Charlton company, 1911.
The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ed. Denise D. Knight. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. 2 vols.
"Esthetic Dyspepsia." Saturday Evening Post Vol. 173, no. 5 (4 August 1900): 12.
"Eulogize Susan B. Anthony." New York Times, February 16, 1920: 15:6.
"Girls and Land." The Forerunner Vol. 6 no. 5 (May 1915): 113–117.
Herland. The Forerunner. Vol. 6 no. 1-12 (1915).
His Religion and Hers: A study of the faith of our fathers and the work of our mothers. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 [c.1923].
"The Home and the Hospital." Good Housekeeping 40 (1905): 192-194.
The Home: Its Work and Influence. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903.
"The Housekeeper and the Food Problem." Annals of the American Academy Vol. 74 (Nov. 1917): 123-140.
“How Home Conditions React Upon the Family.” The American Journal of Sociology Vol. 14 (March 1909).
"How to Lighten the Labor of Women." McCall's Vol. 40 no. 4 (1912): 14–15, 77.
Human Work. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904.
“The Humanness of Women.” The Forerunner Vol. 1 no. 3 (1910): 12-14.
“Ideals of Child Culture.” Child Study for Mothers and Teachers. Ed Margaret Sangster. [Philadelphia]: The Booklovers library, 1901. 93-101.
In This Our World. 1st ed. Oakland: McCombs & Vaughn, 1893.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60481/60481-h/60481-h.htm (1914 edition) https://archive.org/details/inthisourworldot00gilmiala (1895 edition)
"Is America Too Hospitable?" Forum 70 (1923): 1983–1989.
A Journey from Within: The Love Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1897–1900. Ed. Mary A. Hill. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995.
"The Labor Movement." Alameda County Federation of Trades. 1893. Alameda County, CA Labor Union Meetings. September 2, 1892.
"Lecture Given by Mrs. Gilman." San Francisco Call Vol. 7 no. 3 (November 1911) 7.
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1935.
Mag-Marjorie. The Forerunner Vol. 3 no. 1-12 (1912).
Rpt. Mag-Marjorie and Won Over: Two Novels. New York: Ironweed Press, 1999.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture. New York: Charlton Co., 1911.
Moving the Mountain. New York: Charlton Co., 1911.
"New Morals for Old: Toward Monogamy." Nation 11 June 1924. 671–73.
"The Nobler Male." Forum 74 (1925): 19–21.
"On Dogs." The Forerunner Vol. 2 (1911): 206-209.
"Parasitism and Civilized Vice." Woman's Coming of Age. Ed. S. D. Schmalhausen. NY: Liveright, 1931. 110–26.
"The Passing of the Home in Great American Cities." Cosmopolitan Vol. 38 no. 2 (December 1904): 137–47.
"Pets and Children." The Independent 13 August 1908. 65.
ProQuest, American Periodicals database. Subscription access.
"Prisons For Animals." Vegetarian and Fruitarian Vol. 27 no. 6 (1 June 1928): 16.
ProQuest, American Periodicals database. Subscription access.
"Progress through Birth Control." North American Review 224 (1927): 622-629.
“The Right to Earn Money.” Woman’s Journal Vol. 18 no. 2 (8 January 1887): 12.
Harvard Library Viewer, https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:49687853$18i
"Safeguards Suggested for Social Evils." San Francisco Call Vol. 12 no. 4 (24 April 1892).
"Scientific Training of Domestic Servants." Women and Industrial Life Vol. 6 of International Congress of Women of 1899. Ed Countess of Aberdeen.
London: T. Unwin Fisher, 1900. 109.
The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ed. Denise D. Knight and Jennifer S. Tuttle. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009.
"Sex and Race Progress." Sex in Civilization. Eds V. F. Calverton and S. D. Schmalhausen. NY: Macaulay, 1929. 109-123.
"Should Wives Work?" Success 5 (September 1902): 501-502.
"Social Darwinism." American Journal of Sociology 12 (1907): 713-14.
Social Ethics: Sociology and the Future of Society. 1914. Ed. Michael R. Hill and Mary Jo Deegan. Westport: Praeger, 2004.
"Some Light on the [Single Woman's] 'Problem.'" American Magazine 62 (1906): 427-429.
“Something to Vote For: A One Act Play.” The Forerunner Vol.2 no.6 (June 1911).
Suffrage Songs and Verses. New York: Charlton Co., 1911.
"A Suggestion on the Negro Problem." American Journal of Sociology 14 (1908): 78-85.
“Three Women: A One Act Play.” The Forerunner Vol. 2 no. 5 (1911): 115-123, 134.
"Three Thanksgivings." The Forerunner Vol. 1 (1909): 5-12.
"The Washington Convention." Woman's Journal Vol. 27 no. 7 (15 February 1896): 49–50.
“The Waste of Private Housekeeping.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 48 (July 1913).
Unpunished. Ed. Catherine J. Golden and Denise D. Knight. New York: Feminist Press, 1997.
What Diantha Did. New York: Charlton Co., 1910.
"When Socialism Began." American Fabian Vol. 3 no. 11 (November 1897): 1–2.
With Her in Ourland. The Forerunner. Vol. 7 no. 1-12 (1916).
Rpt. Eds. Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
“Woman's Economic Place. In Reply to the Article of Professor Peck in the June Cosmopolitan.” The Cosmopolitan Vol. 27 no. 3 (July 1899): 309-313.
"A Woman's Party." Suffragist Vol. 8 no. 1 (1920): 8–9.
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1898.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57913/57913-h/57913-h.htm (3rd edition, 1900)
“Women to Men. Relatives and Otherwise.” Woman's Journal. The Woman's Column Vol. 9 no. 5 (1 Feb. 1896): 1.
"Won Over." The Forerunner Vol. 4 no. 1-12 (1913).
Reprinted in Mag-Marjorie and Won Over: Two Novels. New York: Ironweed Press, 1999.
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