![]() ![]() ![]() Although families at the time tended to be much larger than two children, Mary Perkins was advised to not have any more children at risk of her health or even her life. She had one brother, Thomas Adie Perkins, who was just over a year older than her. Notable Quote: “It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.”Ĭharlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, as the first daughter and second child of Mary Perkins (nee Mary Fitch Westcott) and Frederic Beecher Perkins.Selected Works: "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), In This Our World (1893), Women and Economics (1898), The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903),.Parents: Frederic Beecher Perkins and Mary Fitch Wescott.Known For: Novelist and activist for feminist reform.Also Known As: Charlotte Perkins Stetson. ![]()
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