Suicides by Gas: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yasunari Kawabata, John Francis Wheaton, Sadeq Hedayat, Tadeusz Borowski, Kenelm Lee Guinnes

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yasunari Kawabata, John Francis Wheaton, Sadeq Hedayat, Tadeusz Borowski, Kenelm Lee Guinness, Jack De Garis, Ida Craddock, Bernard Spilsbury, Don Hollenbeck, Chris McKinstry, Minnie Vautrin, Quentin Hubbard, Ren Crevel, Rembrandt Bugatti, Hugo Distler, Inge M ller, Joan Dowling, Benny Marinelli, Beatrice Hastings, Bella Darvi, Torquato Neto, Jochen Klepper, Herbert Jones, Patrick Tuohy. Excerpt: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. Charlotte was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Perkins (formerly Mary Fitch Westcott) and Frederick Beecher Perkins. She had only one brother, Thomas Adie, who was fourteen months older, because a physician advised Mary Perkins that she might die if she bore other children. During Charlotte's infancy, her father moved out and abandoned his wife and children, leaving them in an impoverished state. Since their mother was unable to support the family on her own, the Perkinses were often in the presence of aunts on her father's side of the family, namely Isabella Beecher Hooker, a suffragist, Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Catharine Beecher. At the age of five, Gilman taught herself to read because her mother was ill. Her mother was not affectionate with her children. To keep them from getting hurt as she had be...