GARDENER, Helen H. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?
Boston: Arena Publishing Company , 1892.
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Helen H. Gardener's Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter; From the Library of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Later edition of this feminist novella; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Duodecimo, original wrappers. Signed by Gilman on the title page, "Charlotte Perkins Stetson," with her Chicago address. Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis, Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today's society. In good condition, lacking the front wrapper with some loss to the spine and rear panel. Rare and desirable.
Helen Hamilton Gardener, born Alice Chenoweth, was an American author, intellectual, and political activist who produced many lectures, articles, and books during the 1880s and 1890s. After working with neurologist Edward C. Spitzka to refute Hammond's thesis of the inherent inferiority of the female brain, she later emerged as a novelist, producing 'Is This Your Son, My Lord?' and 'Pray You Sir, Whose Daughter?' which together criticized the double standard of morality between the sexes. In 1907, Gardener returned to Washington, D.C., where she took up the suffrage cause, being appointed to the United States Civil Service Commission in 1920 as the first woman to occupy such a high federal position.
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?
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