Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer and early sociologist, and an advocate for social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States. Her fiction and nonfiction argued for women's economic independence, and her short story The Yellow Wallpaper remains her most read work.