Yellow Wallpaper

Yellow Wallpaper - Paperback

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Yellow Wallpaper - Paperback

Yellow Wallpaper - Paperback

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Book Overview

The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health. The story also has been classified as Gothic fiction and horror fiction. The story is written as a collection of first person journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house that he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency " a diagnosis common to women in that period.

Her husband controls her access to the rest of the house. In the end she imagines that there are women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper and comes to believe that she is one of them. She locks herself in the room now the only place where she feels safe refusing to leave when the summer rental is up.

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ISBN9798880923144
Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman
PublisherStart Publishing Pd
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages38
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendant of the prominent and influential Beecher family. In 1884 she married Charles Water Stetson. After giving birth, Charlotte sank into a deep depression. She entered a sanitarium in Philadelphia to undergo the 'rest cure', a controversial treatment, which forbade any type of physical activity or intellectual stimulation. In 1892, she published the now-famous story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." In 1898, her most famous nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published. With its publication, and subsequent translation into seven languages, Gilman earned international acclaim. In 1900, she married her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman. Over the next thirty-five years, she wrote and published hundreds of stories and poems and more than a dozen books.

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