- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.
- Great-granddaughter of private sector religion exponent Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), grand-niece of famous Presbyterian minister and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and Uncle Tom's Cabin writer Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- Philosopher, writer, educator and activist who demanded equal treatment for women as the best means to advance society's progress.
- She died due to a self-prescribed overdose of chloroform because she had terminal breast cancer.
- Her famous short story _Yellow Wallpaper, The (1989) (TV)_ mirrored her own life (she also had a nervous breakdown after the birth of her daughter).
- Inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.
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