Authors: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland (25 page)
And he did. With which agreement we at last left Herland.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), humanist, wrote books of history, anthropology, ethics, and philosophy, as well as poetry, novels, satire, and social commentary. She devoted her life to lecturing and writing in order to persuade a vast audience of the feasibility of her feminist-socialist vision
Ann J. Lane is a professor of history and the Director of Women’s Studies at Colgate University. In addition to having edited
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
, she has written a number of books on American history, including
The Brownsville Affair: National Outrage and Black Reaction
and
Mary Ritter Beard: A Sourcebook
. Her definitive biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
To “Herland” and Beyond
, was published by Pantheon in 1990.
Introduction Copyright © 1979 by Ann J. Lane
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, 1860-1935.
Herland.
I. Title.
PZ3.G4204He 1979 [PS1744.G57] 813’.4 78-20418
eISBN: 978-0-307-75807-1
v3.0