Gilman: Novels, Stories & Poems

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**A definitive edition of the groundbreaking feminist fiction of a nineteenth century pioneer** Library of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story **“The Yellow Wall-Paper.”** The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman’s mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism and includes a virtuoso series of stories written in imitation of the most acclaimed authors of her day. The utopian novels **Herland** and **With Her in Ourland** —about a remote and isolated society of women—are pioneering works of speculative fiction and still-incisive commentaries on the politics of gender. Gilman was known to her contemporaries first and foremost as a poet, and this volume brings together her collection **In This Our World** with more than fifty other poems, many written in support of suffrage and other causes.