• Benigna Machiavelli by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)

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Benigna Machiavelli by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)

By: Mentor New York
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  • In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published this delightful fictional autobiography, Benigna Machiavelli (1914), in her monthly magazine, The Forerunner. The narrator, young Benigna MacAvelly, decides as a child that she intends to emulate her ancestor Niccolò Machiavelli but dedicate her machinations to doing good rather than evil. She starts her ingenious plotting very early in life (for example, as an 11-year-old, she enlists her classmates in an elaborate money-raising scheme to buy a new watch for an impoverished teacher), and moves on to larger goals as she gets older. Her most significant challenge is her domineering father. Determined to liberate her downtrodden mother from his verbal abuse, Benigna concocts an elaborate plan to deal with him and restore her mother's self-confidence. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann)
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Episodes
  • Chapter XII

    Chapter XII
    Jul 16 2023
    24 mins
  • Chapter XI

    Chapter XI
    Jul 16 2023
    29 mins
  • Chapter X

    Chapter X
    Jul 16 2023
    29 mins

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