
Episode 81: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Boston Marriage of Charlotte Gilman
In 1879, Charlotte Gilman falls in love with a young woman, Martha Luther. This is her first significant romantic relationship. She's relying on this family's goodwill but if she divorces, she could find a more stable breadwinner one thinks right? Yeah. But unfortunately, a religious family does not support that. So they sort of didn't approve and thus stopped their charity. At this point, as I mentioned before, Charlotte leaves, but starts school for a brief time at the Rhode Island School of Design,. And this was really cool. She started working, designing greeting and advertising cards. They're just little like pictures of people doing laundry and things like that to promote the French
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