Description: Considers Gilman's place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era
Review Quotes: "This collection makes a distinct contribution to Gilman studies in expanding and complicating our understanding of Gilman within a diverse array of contexts and contemporaries. . . . Coverage includes both British and American, male and female; United States--East, Midwest, and West; socio-intellectual and literary."
--Carol F. Kessler, author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress toward Utopia