They have accordingly begun to develop new methods of storytelling. Although standard, chronological studies of individual women continue to appear, many feminists have become dissatisfied with conventional approaches to writing biographies of female subjects.
Lane -a professor of history at the University of Virginia - has joined other feminist scholars who are currently experimenting with innovative ways of telling the tales of women's lives. In adopting such a personal, reflective biographical mode Ms. Lane and her readers, between Gilman's life and Gilman's work, between the old and the young Charlottes.
Lane begins her remarkable biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman with the words, ''This is the story of my Charlotte.'' Later in the preface she describes the ''dialogue'' she has had with Gilman, and identifies other dialogues as well: between Ms. The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.Īnn J.
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