Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born the following year on March 23, 1885. Around this time Charlotte Perkins Gilman suffered from a very serious bout of post-partum depression. In a time where women were seen as "hysterical" and "nervous" beings; additionally, because she had just given birth, doctors believed that her depression was a result of childbirth, so her concerns were dismissed

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