Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman An Autobiography, The.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. An Autobiography by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Foreword by Zona Gale. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935.
8vo, xxxviii, 341pp; (including index); illustrated; dark red vertically-ribbed cloth, facsimile signature in gold at the front cover; title, author and publisher in gold at the spine; trace of wear to tips and ends; upper corners of spine sunned (corresponding to dust-jacket chipping); crinkle to cloth at front panel; lower edge bumped at front panel; black and white dust-jacket; dust-jacket worn and brittle with two or three major chips, one at foot of spine (1 x 1/2” piece lacking), one at front cover (narrow triangular piece 1-1/2” x 1/2” lacking), and chips to head of spine; near fine in the original (and decidedly scarce) dust-jacket. With a card laid in, 3-7/8 x 3”; the sentiment is written on one side and on the reverse is penned “Miss J. Augusta Seuter”; one edge of card roughened, but generally very good.
First edition. First printing. With card from the writer laid in, Dear Girl - / One of the Sister Muses! / This with love / and hoping you'll / enjoy some of it. / Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This is a presentation to Gilman’s old friend, J. August Seuter (Gussie). NAW notes that Carrie Chapman Catt “placed Charlotte Perkins Gilman at the head of her list of America’s dozen greatest women” and goes on to state unequivocally that she was “certainly the leading intellectual of the woman’s movement in the United States.” This autobiography appeared the year of her death and is still a prime source on the writer’s life. Zona Gale, one of the first women to win the Pulitzer Prize (for her drama Miss Lulu Bett, which she adapted from her book of the same name), spent much of her professional life actively supporting and working for women’s rights, international peace, and the abolition of capital punishment. She served as vice-president of the Wisconsin Suffrage Association, for instance, and her preface to Gilman’s autobiography reflects her own personal commitment to women’s rights. The autobiography of possibly the single-most influential 20th century feminist, distinguished by the Foreword by Zona Gale. Autograph material by the writer is scarce and this warm sentiment is even more unusual for its affectionate tone. Scharnhorst 2165. Krichmar 4711. NAW II, pp. 39-42 [Gilman], pp. 7-9 [Gale].
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