"Thoughts at Night" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Title
- "Thoughts at Night" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Description
- Gilman's unpublished poem was written during the final months of her pregnancy with her only child. She cries out to God, asking for him to "help [her] to live" in a "noble and earnest and pure" way. Although this was written before she was subjected to the rest cure, Gilman's poem candidly explores her relationship to depression and mental illness.
- Creator
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Source
- Harvard Library
- Date
- January 17th, 1885
- Relation
- "Thoughts at Night"
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Citation
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “"Thoughts at Night" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,” Excavating Histories: Archival Research Methods, accessed April 25, 2026, https://archive.engl.sites.carleton.edu/items/show/9.