She was married again in 1900, to her first cousin Houghton Gilman. She separated from her husband in 1888 and moved to Pasadena, California and became an active voice in the feminist movement, publishing extensively on the role of women in the household. Silas Weir Mitchell, who suggested that she focus on domestic duties and avoid intellectual activity.
After the birth of her daughter, she suffered from post-partum depression and was prescribed an unsuccessful ‘rest-cure’ by Dr. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson and gave birth to their only child, a daughter. Her aunts, including prominent suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and author Harriet Beecher Stowe, helped to support her mother through this period.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman had a difficult childhood after her father abandoned her family while she was still an infant.
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