Cover of The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aric Cushing, Logan Thomas, SparkNotes, Bryan Hunt, A. J. Alexander, Steven Stern, Aileen Oracion, Twisted Classics, Anne Geer, Sara Barkat, Period Time Publishing, Félix Gerónimo, AGUSTIN LOPEZ TOBAJAS, Nicolae Sfetcu, Erminia Passannanti

44 pages2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN 9781974081349
FictionClassics

About this book

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER is a story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Foregoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment she is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. The room's windows are barred to prevent children from climbing through them, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, though she and her husband have access to the rest of the house and its adjoining estate.

Publication Details

Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published
2017
Pages
44
ISBN
9781974081349
Language
en

About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, ***The Yellow Wallpaper***, which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression. She was the daughter of <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL352823A" target="_blank">Frederic B. Perkins</a>.

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