Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform.
Gilman c. 1900
Gilman (right) with her daughter, Katherine Beecher Stetson, c. 1897
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston (c. 1900)
Portrait of Gilman at age 24, c. 1884
Charles Walter Stetson
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Charles Walter Stetson was an American artist often described as a "colorist" for his rich use of color.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
…relationship to marry a man in 1881. Gilman was devastated and detested romance and love until she met her first husband. In 1884, she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson, whom she met while studying art at the Rhode Island School of Design. Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson (1885–1979), was born the following…
Formal portrait of Charles Walter Stetson, circa 1884