American sociologist and author (born 1860)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. Gilman is best known for the semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), based on her experience with postpartum depression, her manifesto calling for women's economic independence, Women and Economics (1898), and the utopian feminist novel, Herland (1915).

Born

1860

July 3

Died

1935

Era

1860s

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Charlotte, in brief

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1860 Born
1935 Died

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324 Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
987 Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigning until 1087.
1535 Diego de Almagro leaves the recently conquered Inca capital of Cuzco to lead an expedition to Chile.

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The world in 1935

When Charlotte departed

april 1 India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
april 11 Stresa Front: Opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
april 14 The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
april 23 The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

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Alfred Korzybski 1879– Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Carl Ludvig Engel 1778– German architect (died 1840) Franz Kafka 1883–1924 Czech-Austrian author (died 1924) George Sanders 1906–1972 English actor (born 1906) Jean-Claude Duvalier 1951–2014 Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (died 2014) John Singleton Copley 1738–1815 American painter (died 1815) Kurtwood Smith 1943– American actor Teemu Selänne 1970– Finnish ice hockey player

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1860

Alexander Winton 1860– Scottish-American race car driver and engineer (died 1932) Charles Curtis 1860–1936 American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (born 1860) Goscombe John 1860– Welsh-English sculptor and academic (died 1952) Gustav Mahler 1860–1911 Austrian composer and conductor (died 1911) Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1860–1941 Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (born 1860) Isaac Albéniz 1860–1909 Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860) J. M. Barrie 1860–1937 Scottish novelist and playwright (born 1860) Jane Addams 1860–1935 American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860) Kanō Jigorō 1860–1938 Japanese founder of judo (born 1860)

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