Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist, 1860-1896

With the help of letters and diaries Mary A. Hill shows the development of Charlotte Perkins Gilman from her girlhood dreams, her early stories and attempts at publication, her passionate relationships with both men and women, her intellectual friendships, her strenuous self-improvement regimes, her struggle to be both a dutiful daughter and independant woman.