Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction - The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Acknowledgments -- New England -- 1 - "Beginnings" (-1876) -- 2 - "I'm Not Domestic and Don't Want to Be" (1877-1881) -- 3 - "I Am Not the Combining Sort" (1882-1884) -- 4 - "A Life with No Beyond!" (1884-1888) -- California -- 5 - "Begin New" (1888-1891) -- 6 - "The Duty Farthest" (1891-1895) -- At Large -- 7 - "A Woman-at-Large" (1895-1897) -- 8 - "Living and Loving" (1897-1900) -- New York -- 9 - "A Cleared Path" (1900-1904) -- 10 - "Readjustment" (1904-1909) -- 11 - "The Forerunner" (1909-1916) -- 12 - "Begin Again" (1916-1922) -- Norwich -- 13 - "A Returned Exile" (1922-1934) -- Pasadena -- 14 - "The Stepping Off Place" (1934-1935) -- Postmortem -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.