Tabitha Gilman

Writer whose published works contribute to contemporary literature. The Gilman name in American letters is most prominently associated with Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), the feminist writer, lecturer, and social reformer whose short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) and utopian novel Herland (1915) are foundational texts of feminist literature.

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Tabitha Gilman is a writer whose published works appear in contemporary literature.

The Gilman name in American literature is dominated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), whose semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) — depicting a woman’s descent into psychosis during a “rest cure” — is one of the most important early feminist texts in American literature. Gilman’s utopian novel Herland (1915), serialised in her magazine The Forerunner, imagines an all-female society and has become a touchstone of feminist speculative fiction.

Collecting Gilman

For collectors interested in the Gilman name, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (first separate edition, 1899, Small, Maynard & Company) is an extremely scarce and valuable feminist text.

Herland was not published in book form until 1979 (Pantheon), rediscovered by Ann J. Lane. Gilman’s work has been central to feminist literary criticism since the 1970s revival of interest in women’s writing.