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I have preferred chloroform to cancer

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
Artist
Economist
Editor
Feminist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Sociologist
Suffragette
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Hartford
Connecticut
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