by Jill Bergman
Davis. She has published more than thirty articles and essays on Gilman.
Gary Scharnhorst is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico, the editor of the journal Ameri can Literary Realism, and the editor in alternating years of the research annual Ameri can Literary Scholarship. He has published numerous books and articles on a broad range of writers, books, and subjects in Ameri can literature.
William C. Snyder is a professor of English at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His 1984 dissertation was a cross- disciplinary exploration of the affinities between nineteenth- century painting and perceptual process and the poetry and theory of William Wordsworth. In the intervening de-
cades he has made numerous presentations on his investigation of the relation of visual art to verbal art while teaching composition and literature courses.
He has published articles in several composition journals, as well as in European Romantic Review and Women’s Studies.
Contributors / 221
Jennifer S. Tuttle is the Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health at the University of New England, where she also serves as the faculty director of the Maine Women Writers Collection. She is the editor of the first modern reissue of Gilman’s 1911 novel The Crux (2002), the coeditor of The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009) with Denise D. Knight, and the coeditor of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts (2011) with Carol Farley Kessler. A particular focus of her work has been recovering Gilman’s associations with the US West. Her other published work concerns
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, S. Weir Mitchel , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
and Owen Wister.
Index
abstract expressionism, 7, 76
Bederman, Gail, 33
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 20, 122
Beecher family, 13, 18
Ahmed, Sara, 136
Beer, Janet, 138
Alice in Wonderland, 153
Bell, Michael Davitt, 139
Allen, Judith, 24, 115n15
Bellamy, Edward, 17, 31
American Arts and Crafts, 168
Bellingham, Wash ing ton, 21
Ameri can exceptionalism, 15
Bennett, Bridget, 31
Aristotle, 100
Bergman, Jill, 110
Aronson, Amy, 190
Berlusconi, Silvio, 186, 189, 204
Arts and Crafts movement, 168, 170, 173–
Betjemann, Peter, 8–9
76, 179–80
Bianchi, Bruna, 204, 212n56
Austen, Jane, 147
Bieler, Henry G., 62
Austin, Mary, 33, 110
Bierce, Ambrose, 18
Avril, Chloé, 203
Bindi, Rosy, 189
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 19
Bachelard, Gaston, 1–2, 4, 74
Boccassini, Ilda, 204
Baird, Karen, 198
Borglum, Solon Hamilton, 27
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 123
Bower, B. M., 22
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, 39n49
Boxer, Barbara, 199
Baldick, Chris, 75
Bradstreet, Anne, 51
Balzac, Honoré de, 147
Braque, Georges, 7, 82, 88
Barnes, Djuna, 110
Brechin, Gray A., 27
Barney, Nora Stanton (Blatch), 32
Brontë, Charlotte, 147
Barnum, O. Shepard, 58
Brown University, 73
Baum, L. Frank, 139
Brown, Bill, 29, 40n51
224 / Index
Bulwer- Lytton, Edward, 152
Davis, Cynthia J., 22, 62, 101, 107, 111, 163,
Burbank, Luther, 26
190, 193, 195, 201, 207n15
Butler, Christopher, 75
Davis, Wendy, 199, 200, 210n38
Davison, Carol, 138
Calder, Alexander Stirling, 28, 32
Dee, Phyllis Susan, 157
California Nationalist, 16
Degler, Carl, 190–91
California, 5–6, 13, 15–21, 24–27, 34,
DeKay, Charles, 50
41n61, 58, 62, 64, 68n25, 79, 122, 171
Dennett, Daniel, 101–2, 112, 113n5, 113n8
Californian Illustrated Magazine, 16
Dickens, Charles, 147, 157, 159n4
Calvino, Italo, 5
Dickinson, Emily, 89
Cane, Aleta, 136
dictograph, 174–78
Caputi, Claudia, 202
Domosh, Mona, 2
Carter- Sanborn, Kristin, 32
Duchamp, Marcel, 92n19
Castro, Olga, 204
Cather, Willa, 22
Edelstein, Sari, 7–8
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 201
Edwards, Jonathan, 113n2
Cézanne, Paul, 7, 82
Egg, Augustus, 147–48, 154, 159n5
Chamberlin, F. Tolles, 48, 57, 60, 62, 65n2
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 191
Chamberlin, Katharine, 47, 48, 52–54, 56–
Eisler, Riane, 24
58, 60, 62–63, 65, 67n17, 68n32, 69n37, Eliot, George, 68n23, 147, 159n4, 161n33
69n41, 75, 123, 161n37
Eliot, T. S., 89
Chamberlin, Linda, 47
Ellman, Mary, 190
Chamberlin, Walter Stetson, 19, 65n2,
English, Deirdre, 191
69n37
eugenics, 18, 22, 24, 30, 32, 39n46, 97, 101,
Channing, Grace Ellery, 52, 57–58, 74–75,
108–10, 116n27
81, 91n3, 97, 123, 161n37
Everett, Wash ing ton, 21
Channing, Harold, 58
exceptionalism, Ameri can, 15
Chopin, Kate, 109
Clinton, Hillary, 205
Fiedler, Leslie, 123
Colorado, 5, 14, 20, 23, 98, 106, 107,
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, 132
111, 163
Fleenor, Juliann, 123
Columbian Exposition, 30
Fluke, Sandra, 199, 200
Comer, Krista, 2, 33–34
Forerunner, The, 8, 20, 22, 24, 26, 30, 32,
Coontz, Stephanie, 193
39n45, 60, 131–46, 166, 189, 191,201
Cortés, Hernán, 38n40
Franco, Vittoria, 204, 212n56
Cresson, Mrs. George V., 67n14
Frankenthaler, Helen, 85
Cresswell, Tim, 2, 8, 102, 110, 114n14,
Fraser, James Earle, 28
115n15, 132–33, 146, 149, 154, 155
Fraser, Nancy, 142
Cronin, Michael, 204
Freud, Sigmund, 100
cubism, 7, 76, 82, 87
Friedan, Betty, 190
Cutter, Martha, 156
Gale, Zona, 63, 188, 195
Dadaism, 92n19
Garland, Hamlin, 19
Darrow, Clarence, 175
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 154
Index / 225
Gaul, Theresa Strouth, 192
Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 58–
Gibson, Marion, 139
59, 73, 111, 195, 201; “Why I Wrote the
Gilbert, Sandra, 24, 38n39, 192
Yellow Wall- Paper,” 92n14, 97; “Why
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, fiction: “Bee
Nevada Should Win Its Suffrage Cam-
Wise,” 21; Benigna Machiavelli, 163–66,
paign in No vem ber,” 15; Women and
173, 176, 179; “The Chair of English,”
Economics, 32, 58, 97, 157, 188–89, 201,
146,174–75; The Crux, 6, 7, 17, 20–24,
203; “Woman Suffrage and the West,”
32, 97–98, 100–12, 163–64, 166, 176–
14; “Woman’s ‘Manifest Destiny,’” 21–
77; “Dr. Clair’s Place,” 21, 60, 132–35;
22, 24
“Fulfilment,” 21, 170–73; “The Giant
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, poetry: “The<
br />
Wistaria,” 7, 20, 119–27, 138; “Girls
Changeless Year—South ern California,”
and Land,” 20, 21; Herland, 5, 6, 13,
16; “Christmas Carol for Los Angeles,”
20, 24–34, 38n45, 41n61, 164–66, 168,
16; “Hyenas,” 132; “In Duty Bound,”
176, 179, 181n9, 187, 189, 191, 201–4;
121; “In Mother- Time,” 15, 122; In This
“His Record,” 168, 179–80; “Joan’s De-
Our World, 16; “An Invitation,” 16–
fender,” 21; Moving the Mountain, 179;
17; “Nature’s Answer,” 121, 124; “An
“Mrs. Beazley’s Deeds,” 172–73; “My
Obstacle,” 156; “An Old Proverb,”
Poor Aunt,” 21; “The Rocking Chair,”
121; “Our East,” 17; “Our San Fran-
138, 146, 169–72; “Their House,”
cisco Climate,” 16; “Powell Street,”
132, 134–35; “Through This,” 169–70;
16; “Similar Cases,” 18; “Thanksgiving
“Turned,” 146–62; “The Unexpected,”
Hymn for California,” 16; “The Yellow
165; “The Unnatural Mother,” 143n9;
Reporter,” 132
Unpunished, 177–79, 207n17; “The
Gilman, Houghton, 47–48, 56, 58, 59, 60,
Vintage,” 116n23; What Diantha Did,
62, 64, 164, 193
6, 20–21; “When I Was a Witch,” 8,
Giorcelli, Cristina, 186
132, 136–38, 141, 146; With Her in Our-
Girard, René, 156, 157
land, 38n45; “The Widow’s Might,”
Glaubert, Gustave, 147
156; “The Yellow Wall- Paper,” 3, 4, 7,
Golden, Catherine, 8, 143n20, 159n5,
17, 60, 72–92, 119, 124–25, 131, 138, 146,
160n26, 187, 188, 192
153, 165, 169–70, 179, 187–90, 192, 194–
Good Housekeeping, 133
97, 200–2, 208n23
gothicism, 7, 119–25, 137–38, 139, 141
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, lectures:
Grafly, Charles, 39n47
“Equal Pay for Equal Work,” 190;
Graham, Elizabeth A., 58
“Nationalism and Love,” 18; “Nation-
Gramsci, Antonio, 99, 104
alism and Religion,” 18; “Nationalism
Graulich, Melody, 18, 33, 110, 116n30
and the Arts,” 18; “Nationalism and
Greeley, Horace, 21, 37n26
the Virtues,” 18; “Our Place Today, 133; Gubar, Susan, 24, 38n39, 192
“What is Nationalism?” 18; “Why We
Want Nationalism,” 18
Hale, Edward Everett, 38n40, 48
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, nonfiction:
Hale, Ellen Day, 48–49, 51, 53, 63, 65
“Are Love Affairs News?” 131; Con-
Hall, Radclyffe, 110
cerning Children, 19; “The Gorgeous
Harding, Wendy, 2
Exposition,” 30; The Home: Its Work
Harper’s Bazar, 16
and Influence, 19; Human Work, 58; The Harris, Sam, 113n6
226 / Index
Harrison, Brady, 7
Ladies’ Home Journal, 132–33, 136
Hartford, Conneticut, 13
Lamarck, Jean- Baptiste, 31
Harvard University, 64, 75
Lamont, Victoria, 37n28
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 48, 120, 122
Land of Sunshine, 16, 18, 58
Hedges, Elaine, 190–91, 206n7
Landow, George, 148
Heidegger, Martin, 1
Lane, Ann, 149, 191, 202, 206n7
Helms, Jesse, 199
Langley, Juliet, 193
Higginson, Ella, 110
Las Casitas, California, 34, 41n64, 48, 58–
Hill, Mary, 193, 208n19
60, 64
Hill, Michael, 203
Lefebvre, Henri, 2
Hobbes, Thomas, 98, 101, 113n2
Lentilli, Leo, 28, 32
Hochman, Barbara, 165
Lepetit, Laura, 201
Horner, Avril, 138
Limbaugh, Rush, 199
Howe, Hattie, 63
Lithwick, Dahlia, 210n38
Howells, William Dean, 18, 119, 139
Lockhart, Caroline, 22
Hubbard, Elbert, 168
Lon don, England, 18
Hueffer, Oliver Madox, 139
Lon don, Jack, 19
Hughes, Robert, 79
Los Angeles, California, 133
Hume, David, 98, 101, 113n2
Lowell, James Russell, 18
Hunt, William Morris, 65n5
Loy, Mina, 75
Hurston, Zora Neale, 207n13
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 16, 18, 20,
24, 58
Idaho, 14
Luther, Martha, 67n12, 74, 91n6, 170, 193
Impress, The, 16
impressionism, 7, 49, 77, 79, 80, 82
MacDowell Colony, 57
International Council of Women Quin-
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 164
quennial, 201
Manifest Destiny, 27, 31
International Socialist and Labor Con-
Manjoo, Rashida, 211n49
gress, 18
Markham, Edwin, 18
Markwyn, Abigail M., 39n48
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 19
Marx, Karl, 99, 111–12
Jackson, Peter, 2
Marzano, Michela, 202–3
Jones, Owen, 168
McDowell, Linda, 2, 139
Mead, Rebecca, 33, 41n61
Kane, Robert, 99–101
Melville, Herman, 102, 112n2, 116n33
Kansas Suffrage Reveille, 14
Merleau- Ponty, Maurice, 1
Kant, Immanuel, 114n9
Mill, John Stuart, 98, 101, 113n2
Kessler, Carol Farley, 24
Millet, Kate, 190
Kimmel, Michael, 190
Missal, Alexander, 31
Kirkland, Carolyn, 110
Mitchell, S. Weir, 15, 21, 30, 52, 54, 60, 74,
Kittredge, William, 5
77, 86, 90, 97, 134, 188, 194–97, 200,
Knight, Denise D., 6, 192–95, 197–98,
209n24, 209n28, 209n30
209n28
modernism, 75–76, 89
Index / 227
Monet, Claude, 7, 77
Portland, Oregon, 21
Montalvo, Garcí Ordoñez de, 38n40
Priestley, Joseph, 113n2
Moore, Sarah J., 29–30, 32, 40n59
Providence, Rhode Island, 13, 15, 50, 52,
Moschini, Laura, 186, Laura, 202–4
54, 73, 195
Mukherjee, Sujit, 204
Murray, Patty, 199
race, 14, 22, 23–24, 28, 98, 109–10
Radcliffe Institute, 47, 65n2
Nahl, Perham, 29–30
Ratcliffe, Christopher and Melinda, 52,
National Organization for Women, 190,
65n2, 67n14
207n11
realism, 24, 75, 90, 139–41
National Portrait Gallery, 48, 65n3
Redgrave, Richard, 148–49, 154–55
Nationalism, 14, 17–18
Renoir, Auguste, 77
New England, 13, 16–18, 20, 22–24, 34,
rest cure, 15, 54, 60, 74, 97, 134, 194,
57–58, 64, 68, 102, 105, 110, 122, 163
209n30
New England Magazine, 119
Rhode Island School of Design, 73
New York Tribune syndicate, 60
Rich, Adrienne, 193
New York, New York, 13, 24, 136, 139
Rich, Charlotte J., 38n41, 143n6
Norwich, Conneticut, 13
Richter, Hans, 92n19
Roberts, John, 210n38
Oakland Enquirer, 16
Roe, Vingie E., 22
Oakland, California, 6, 13, 16
Rome, Italy, 6, 9, 186, 188, 200, 202–3, 205
Ockman, Joan, 1
Romeo, Marcella, 203
Out West, 16
Roosevelt, Theodore, 29–30, 40n51
Rose, Gillian, 2, 158
Pacific Coast Women’s Press Association, 16
Ross, Edward Alsworth, 63
Pacific Monthly, 16
Rossetti, Christina, 68n23
Pacific Rural Press, 16
Roth, Frederick G. R., 28, 32
Panama- Pacific International Exposition,
Rothko, Mark, 7, 85–86
25, 26–34
Rudnick, Lois, 33
Parker, Gail Thain, 206n7
Rushdie, Salman, 5
Pasadena, California, 6, 13, 15, 18–21, 48,
62, 65, 74, 91n3, 92n13
San Francisco Call, 16
Patmore, Coventry, 4
San Francisco Examiner, 18
Paul, Alice, 191
San Francisco Star, 16
Peake, Mervyn, 5
San Francisco Wasp, 16
Perkins family, 13
San Francisco, California, 6, 13, 16, 19,
Perkins, Frederic Beecher, 165
25–27
Peticolas, Sherry, 62
Sand, George, 68n23
Picasso, Pablo, 7, 82, 87, 89
Scacchi, Anna, 186–88, 201–4
Pissarro, Camille, 77
Scharnhorst, Gary, 6, 22, 116n30
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1, 173
Scherman, Susan, 198
Police, Ilaria, 203
Schlesinger Library, 47, 64–65, 75
Pollitt, Karen, 199
Seager, Joni, 2
228 / Index
Sedgwick, Eve, 157
Tacoma, Wash ing ton, 21
Seitler, Dana, 37n37, 106, 110, 115n20
Thoreau, Henry David, 108
Shaheen, Jeanne, 199
Treichler, Paula, 124
Shakespeare, William, 163
Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, 193
Shelley, Mary, 124
Tuan, Yi- Fu, 2, 156
Showalter, Elaine, 187
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 15, 23–24, 30,
Smith- Rosenberg, Carroll, 191
40n52, 115n15
Smithsonian Institution, 48, 65n3
Tuttle, Jennifer S., 6, 9, 15, 21, 23–24,
Snyder, William C., 6–7
68n25, 116n21, 116n30, 194, 198
social Darwinism, 18
Twain, Mark, 48
Social Purity, 18
Soja, Edward J., 2
Utah, 14
Spokane, Wash., 21
Stafford, Barbara Maria, 87
Van de Putte, Leticia, 199–200
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 32