THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America’s most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of The Yellow Wallpaper, in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman’s feminist Utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman’s intellectual and creative production.