Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a famous American poet, short story writer, novelist, lecturer, non-fiction writer, who is known for her strong social views. Charlotte suffered from depression and anxiety, and had strong views on women’s rights. [sounds like you're implying a relationship between being neurotic and having strong views on womens' rights fyi] She was best known for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which she projected some of her own life experiences [...with blah and blah and blah...] through the narrator in the story.
[Big jump from talking specifically about that story to her bio, maybe something like 'In order to understand Perkins' writing, it is helpful to consider her background...'] “Charlotte Anna Perkins was born on July 3, 1860 in the New England town of Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Mary Fitch Westcott and librarian and writer Fredrick Beecher Perkins” (Merriman 1). Charlotte did not have an easy life growing up. Her father left her family when she was young, and they were left in poverty to fend for themselves [add ', as her mother was unemployed/crippled/underemployed/unemployable' if possible].In spite of the adversity she faced and her lack of early education, the sum of which she described as, "four years among seven different institutions, ending when I was fifteen," Charlotte managed to attend the Rhode Island School of Design from 1878 through 1883. [how? scholarship or summin? mom's broke and dad's gone, right?] Soon after she went on to do some teaching, and also designed greeting cards. In 1884 she married her husband, a fellow artist, Charles Walter Stentson, with whom she had her daughter Katharine Beecher Stetson in 1885 (2). Motherhood consumed her time, subsuming [uh itym 'delayed' or  'stifled' or something else that's not 'subsumed'] her ambition. This caused Gilman to sink into a depression that was at first treated by a popular form of rehabilitation [I was expecting you to say what kind of treatment here. seems off without it.] in a sanitarium in Philadelphia. While there she was treated by Dr Silas Weir Mitchell. [relevant?] As Kaprinski states, “he urged her to ‘live as domestic a life as possible,’ and explained nothing much was wrong with her, yet she was forbidden to touch a pen, pencil or brush ever again, and only allowed two hours of stimulation a day” (1). When this and other treatment methods [name some if you can] proved futile, Charlotte began to understand her roles of wife and mother as the root causes of her depression. She soon separated from Charles and eventually divorced him after moving to California. As her daughter Katherine grew older, she came to resent her mother for what she saw as her abandonment. Also, Charlotte was critical of herself for this decision as well, as part of her wanted to fulfill the motherly role successfully, to give Katharine all the love she had never received from her own mother.  [do you really mean mother here, or is it the father that left? if her mother was a bitch explain a bit earlier in the early life section tia] However, her aspirations as a writer and lecturer superseded any goal of traditional womanhood. Gilman soon found a new husband who was supportive of her career goals and willing to accept them.  The two were married in 1900. In 1934, Charles Houghton Gilman died [who the fuck is that? the new husband?] and Charlotte was struggling with a diagnosis of breast cancer. So, on August 17 of 1935, Gilman ended her life by covering her face with a rag soaked in chloroform (Beekman 5)
 [Add another glue sentence, 'The tribulations of her life served as her artistic impetus for aspects of "The Yellow Wallpaper"' or ss] “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an exaggerated version of her experience upon the rest cure [wtf is that? one of the other treatment methods from the last p? explain it there if so] and its effects on the narrator in the story. The story is told in the style of a series of journal entries, and was written in opposition to her doctor's order of domesticity. [you just told us about the doc's order, either reference it quickly or stuf]  In the story, the narrator’s husband, who also doubles as her physician, recommends her for the rest cure. [zomg projection issues. she blames all men for the faults of her father, like all feminists] He serves as his wife's physician, therefore treating her like a powerless patient. [you just said that physician thing twice, lose one plz] This reflects some of Gilman’s personal experience, and her strong views on women’s rights. The story hints that part of the woman's problem is that she recently gave birth to a child, implying that she may be suffering from what would, in modern times, be called postpartum psychosis. [quotes from the story supporting this would be doubleplusgood][oops I was just going to mark the sentence I deleted here as redundant, because it is] As the story progresses, the woman grows more and more obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom where she is stuck in bed. [another quote about the wallpaper from the text plz] With the summer close to an end, the narrator finally asks for permission to leave the room. John, her husband/physician, does not agree to give her the freedom to walk outside, and the narrator begins to suspect that she is losing her mind. Urged to not speak another word of it, she spends the entire night watching the wallpaper, sleeping during the day [... to avoid the hubby? or just b/c she's crzy?]. Eventually the woman descends into complete insanity, believing she has escaped from inside the wallpaper. On the last day of summer, she locks herself in her room in order to strip the remains of the wallpaper. When John arrives home [and tries to come in her room with the yellow wallpaper, she steels the door against him <<less awkward imo], the woman urges him to fetch a key himself and does not unlock the door for him. When he forces the door open, he finds her creeping around the room, circling the walls and touching the wallpaper. Her husband faints, and she exclaims, "I’ve got out at last," continuing to circle the room, but stepping nonchalantly over his inert body each time. Her behavior here is symbolic of [whatever it's symbolic of]. After Gilman completed this story, she sent a copy to Mitchell [who? husband 1? reminder plz], but never received acknowledgment. “Gilman's purpose in writing "The Yellow Wallpaper" was "not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked." [what] Her secondary intention of convincing Mitchell of his error eventually came to fruition as well: many years later Gilman learned that Mitchell had changed his treatment methods” [oh shit, where was that quote supposed to start.  Did I delete it? sry.  Say mitchell is the doc in the prev. sentence for less confusion plx](Merriman 4)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman experienced many different obstacles in her life as a woman, which were hard to overcome, but which were all part of who she was and which proved instrumental in her art. Without these life experiences, Gilman may not have produced the quality and type of writing that she was famous for.  [why? because she drew on her darkness to enrich her art or some frilly shit like that. expand conclusion a bit kthx]