![]() She accused non-white immigrants of “diluting” the racial purity of America and advocated for a government-run, slavery-adjacent system of forced labor, which she called “enlistment,” for black Americans.Īs a fiction writer, I appreciate and embrace the ways that fiction blends education and entertainment. Except that in other ways, she was all too typical of white feminists of her day. Taken together, her choices form a clear picture of a woman ahead of her time. She had long been an advocate for euthanasia, and in this case, practiced what she preached. Thirty-five years later, after a terminal breast cancer diagnosis, she intentionally took a fatal dose of chloroform to end her life. A few years later, she both divorced her husband and sent her daughter to live with him and his new wife. She moved to California and lived with fellow writer Adeline Knapp, almost certainly as lovers. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the postpartum psychosis and resultant institutionalization that inspired “The Yellow Wallpaper,” she separated from her husband-nearly unheard-of in 1888-and supported herself and her daughter as a single mother with her writing. ![]()
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