The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of. What they find surprises them all they’re captured by women who, for two thousand years, have lived in a peaceful and prosperous utopia without men. Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In Herland, a trio of men set out to discover an all-female community rumoured to be hidden deep in the jungle. This chilling story is based on the author’s own experience of depression. This edition is introduced by journalist and author Lucy Mangan.Ĭonfined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper keeps a secret diary in which she records the sprawling and shifting patterns of the room’s lurid yellow wallpaper as she slowly sinks into madness. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. On the eve of World War I, an all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. The Yellow Wallpaper skillfully charts one woman's struggle with depression whilst Herland is an entertaining imagining of an all female utopia. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a novelist, poet, and social theorist whose ideas were quite provocative during her heyday as a lecturer, in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous stories.

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