Behind the Scenes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"I am sitting by the the Window in this Atrocious Nursery." (Gilman page 1). Charlotte Perkins Gilman said this while being house on the rest cure prescribed by Dr. Weir Mitchell.
Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford Connecticut (Bibliography). She had a rough childhood and her father, Frederick Beecher Perkins, abandoned her family (Biography,com). At the age of 21, she was introduced to Charles Stetson (Gilman Society).He is a physician that helped out  Gilman while she was on the rest cure. She had to be in a room alone to hope that it cured her hysteria. She had married her cousin after she walked out on her old husband and only child, from there she became a stronger woman's' right activist and writer. After she had married her cousin the two of them were together until her husband died in 1934 (Biography.com). About a year later she found out that she had breast cancer that was incurable so she committed suicide on August 17, 1935 (Biography.com).