Gilman
Gilman names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Gilman DANIEL COIT, an Amerieducator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL COIT, an Amerieducator; can born in Norwich, Conn., " July 6, 1831; was graduated at Yale College in 1852; Professor of Physical and Political Geography in Yale in 1856- 1872; president of the University of California in 1872-1875. When Johns Hopkins University was founded in Baltimore, Md., in 1875, he was elected its first president and served in that capacity till 1901, when he resigned and became editor-in-chief of the revised edition of the "International Cyclopædia." In 1896-1897 he was a member of the commission to settle the boundary line between Venezula and British Guiana. His publications include "Life of James Monroe"; "University Problems"; "Introduction" to DeTocqueville's Democracy in America," etc. In 1901 Gilman was elected president of the Carnegie Institute at Washington. He died on Oct. 18, 1908.
Gilman CHARLOTTE PERKINS, an American lecturer and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLOTTE PERKINS, an American lecturer and writer, born in Hartford, Conn., 1860. In 1890 she began lecturing on ethics, economics and sociology, and especially on the place of women in the social structure. She is one of the chief exponents of modern feminism. Since 1909 she has edited and published "The Forerunner," a magazine dedicated to women and economics. She was the author of; "Women and Economics" (1898); "In This Our World 15 (verse, 1898); "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1899); "Concerning Children" (1900); "The Home; Its Work and Influence" (1903); "Human Work" (1904); "What Diantha Did" (1910); "The Man Made World" (1910); ); "The Crux" (1911); "Moving the Mountain" (1911).
Gilman NICHOLAS PAINE, educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NICHOLAS PAINE, educator; born in Quincy, Ill., Ill., Dec. 21, 1849; was graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1871; editor of the Boston "Literary World" in 1888-1895; then became Professor of Sociology and Ethics in the Meadville Theological School. His publications include "Profit-Sharing Between Employer and Employee"; "Socialism and the American Spirit." He died in 1912.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1921 as a living lecturer known chiefly for "Women and Economics," listing "The Yellow Wallpaper" as one title among many; today the reverse is true, and that story — first published in 1892, not 1899 as Collier's has it — is the most widely taught thing she wrote, a fixture of American literature courses since its rediscovery in the 1970s. She died in 1935, taking chloroform after a diagnosis of inoperable breast cancer, and left a suicide note saying she preferred chloroform to cancer; her utopian novel "Herland" (1915), unmentioned here, was reissued in 1979 and is now among her best-known books. Modern accounts also weigh her open support for eugenics and her writings on race, which the 1921 sketch of "one of the chief exponents of modern feminism" passes over. Daniel Coit Gilman's reputation has held up better than his colleagues': the research-university model he built at Johns Hopkins from 1876 became the template for American graduate education, though he headed the Carnegie Institution of Washington, not the "Carnegie Institute."
Written for this edition, 2026.