Gilman Anna Perkins was the great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher and grand-niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her second marriage was to George Houghton Gilman, her cousin. Gilman was an advocate of women's independence and proponent of feminism. Her masterpiece, Women and Economics (1899), was an international success and was translated into several languages. Gilman was a prolific writer and produced hundreds of works of journalism, poetry, novels, and essays. Among her works are Concerning Children (1901), Forerunner (1909), The Man-Made World (1911), What Diantha Did (1910), and Crux (1911). Perkins developed breast cancer in 1932, and committed suicide in 1935, a year after the death of her husband. |
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