The Yellow Wallpaper: Including the Article 'Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper'
About this ebook
An unnamed woman regales her story through diary entries as she suffers through enforced isolation. Following a bout of postpartum psychosis, the woman is prescribed bed rest by her physician husband. The couple rent an old mansion in the countryside, and the woman is trapped in an upstairs room with loathsome yellow wallpaper that slowly takes over her mind. She’s banned from working or writing and does so secretly while commenting on society’s complex patriarchal oppression.
First published in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper is an early feminist short story and an important piece of American literature. This volume features an author biography as well as her essay, ‘Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper’, not to be missed by fans of feminist writings.
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About the author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was an American writer and social reformist, born in Hartford, Connecticut. She’s best-known for her semi-autobiographical short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892), which is loosely based on her experience with postpartum psychosis and is now widely considered to be a seminal feminist text. Now considered a feminist role model, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1994.
