Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading feminist thinker of her age, is best known for her novella The Yellow Wallpaper which is a chilling description of post-partum depression.
This volume also contains Why I wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper', Herland (a novel set in a society consisting solely of women), Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, and a selection of her verse.