Herland

How is the author's childhood described in the foreword of Herland?

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Gilman's childhood is described as tumultuous. After her birth, she and her mother were abandoned by her father. Thereafter, Gilman's mother struggled to raise her daughter on her own. They moved nineteen times in eighteen years, and lived in fourteen different cities.

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Herland