Irresistibly I began thinking about those translations. Degler wrote that Women and Economics was translated into seven languages including Japanese, Hungarian, and Russian. In my research I encountered Carl Degler's entry about Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Notable American Women. So when an unexpected opportunity presented itself to delve into that subject further, I was eager to proceed. Having edited the English translation of Jacobs's memoir, I knew that she had translated Women and Economics (1898). I said I would, and the very same evening I received a letter of confirmation from her." A year later the translation was published. Perkins Stetson asked me if I would like to translate her latest work into Dutch. Charlotte Perkins Stetson." And a few sentences later: "Before the dinner was even over, Mrs. In her account of the conference, she wrote about being seated at a dinner next to "the American writer Mrs. Like many of the three thousand attendees, she was dazzled by the sumptuous receptions and dinners, fascinated by the mix of women, and inspired by the speakers. Jacobs was in her mid-forties then, already well known at home and in correspondence with many women abroad.
One highlight she recalled was the extraordinary 1899 conference in London of the International Council of Women. In her study, surrounded by papers and memorabilia spanning an eventful life, she reminisced. In 1924, when Dutch feminist Aletta Jacobs, the first woman physician in the Netherlands and an international leader in the suffrage movement, was seventy, she wrote her memoir. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division, Washington, D.C. Years before World War I? Introduction Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ca. How Did Eight Translations of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's WOMEN ANDĮCONOMICS Transmit Feminist Thought across National Boundaries in the
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