What Dianthia Did [CPG Family Archive].
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. What Diantha Did [CPG Family Archive]. New York: Charlton Company, 1910.
12mo, 250 pp.; + 4 publisher’s ads; dark brick red cloth, stamped in gold front and spine; some darkening along front gutter; binding a little rubbed with touch of wear to tips and ends; small splotch near gutter at front panel; spine a bit darkened; very good.
First edition. Inscribed at the front flyleaf, To my daughter / to add to her collection / of little Sisters / Dec. 11 / with Mother’s love. The writer dedicated the book to the housewife: “With the highest respect for her great work...hoping for her a happier life, a larger income, better health, and full success in living...” What Diantha Did was her first full-length novel and the first of seven novels to appear in her magazine Forerunner. Gilman disparaged her fictions, noting of the seven which she published in Forerunner, “by which I definitely proved that I am not a novelist.” The Feminist Companion, however, offers a very different assessment of them: “Politically sophisticated, her fiction is witty, ebullient, unpretentious and positive” (The Feminist Companion, p. 429).
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