Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s childhood experiences prepared her for a life of solitude and discipline, which is often essential to the life of an author. Abandoned by her husband, Charlotte’s mother decided to prepare her daughter for hardships by denying affection. Not only did she withhold from Gilman natural physical contact, but she also saw to it that Gilman had no intimate friends. Gilman turned to books for solace. When she was seventeen, her father sent her nonfiction books that prompted her to see her life’s work as a mission to help society.
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