Prominent American author, lecturer, and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 1935) is best known for her 1898 treatise Women and Economics, which traced gender inequality to women s economic dependence upon men, and for her 1892 short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper," which depicts a woman s descent into madness. However, she began her career as a poet. Her first authored book, a collection of verse entitled In This Our World, was issued in four different editions between 1893 and 1898. While virtually all of Gilman s later poems appeared in her monthly magazine, The Forerunner (1909...