LEAFLET: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Under the Exclusive Management of James B. Pond, "The Pond Bureau."
BROCHURE ADVERTISING GILMAN with her holograph address. NY: The Pond Bureau, (ca 1923). 4to, single folded sheet with a photograph of Gilman on the cover, by Bianci Conti of San Francisco to make 4 8-1/2 x 11 in. pages.
The first page has the photo of Giman under which she has crossed out the information of The Pond Agency in open and written her own contact information in ink: "380 Washington St. Norwich Town, Conn. The second page offers a biography of Gilman, calling her: "One of the world's foremost women." The third page lists the lectures that Gilman can deliver and the fourth page reprints press comments on Gilman's lectures and books. Old fold and little wrinkled, but a very good copy. Rare.
Feminist, author and lecturer, Gilman was born in Hartford, Conn. in 1860. NAW: "Carrie Chapman Catt placed Charlotte Perkins Gilman at the head of her list of America's dozen greatest women; in her time she was certainly the leading intellectual of the woman's movement in the United States." She is best remembered for her "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Women and Economics." Much of Gilman's youth was spent in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1878, the eighteen-year-old enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Gilman supported herself as an artist of trade cards.
In 1884, she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson, and their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born the following year. During this time, and throughout her life, she battled depression, the most serious bout coming in the months after Katharine's birth. In 1888, Gilman separated from her husband, a rare occurrence in the late nineteenth century. The two divorced in 1894. In 1932, Gilman was diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer. An advocate of euthanasia for the terminally ill, Gilman committed suicide on August 17, 1935 by inhaling chloroform.
"The Lecture circuit continued to be the primary source of Gilman's income. .. She used th talents of booking agents to promote her tours in given cities, she used national lecture agencies, and she herself wrote to supporters across the country to help set up speaking engagements. Publicity material often quoted authorities who described her as one of the three most putstanding feminists of her time ... The subjects she covered continued to reflect her cosmic view of culture and history... She used the lecture circuit as an opportunity to think and talk out the ideas that found final voice in her printyed books” [Lane, To Herland and Back, pp. 330-332].
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