Mental woman or Gilman?: Gilman's Background

 Charlotte Perkins  Gilman is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper was published in 1892. She was considered sick and mental. "You see he does not believe I am sick!"(1) . Gilman knows she is sick, but her husband Charles, a high standing physician, believes she is fine. Charles talks to Gilman like a child and does not take her seriously. Gilman is a very smart woman and good writer. Charles however does not like for her to write and is against her happiness. In the short story, Charles is represented through John, Jane's husband. "There comes John, and I must put this away,-- he hates to have me write a word" (2). Gilman's aunt is Harriet Beecher  Stowe , and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. They both suffered from the same illness and were well-known writers of her time. 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: well known author for her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, a woman who suffered from "manic-depressive illness" and Post-Pardum Depression, wife of John, mother to Katharine, and a fighter for woman's rights. 

http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman-9311669 This source helped me understand who Gilman is.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/gilman.html This source showed me the different things Gilman published in her life.