- Charlotte Perkins GILMAN was born in 1860 and died in 1935 (suicide at age 75) in the United States. Novelist and poet. She was one of the pioneers of the American feminist movement. She has lectured extensively on social reforms. Her most famous novel, The Yellow WallPaper, addresses the problem of the nervous breakdown she had to fight herself against. Her career in defending the status of women is similar to that of Virginia Woolf. Partisan of the right to die with dignity, Gilman committed suicide when a cancer began to diminish his faculties. - The novel THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, published in 1892 in Boston, USA, is a new feminist by Charlotte Perkins GILMAN. It is a captive account of a depressed woman on the verge of hysteria. It is an important work of the feminist movement in the United States. This novel is written in the first person in the form of a diary of a married woman. The latter is cloistered in a house rented for her for rest and care, following a nervous breakdown. She makes a fixation on the wall paper, painted yellow of her room, where she begins to see the patterns of the wall come to life and form, and sees prisoners like her. These prisoners are held like her in this room. She decides to tear off the wallpaper to free these women trapped and at the same time, free herself.