The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Subjects: PS, Married women -- Psychology -- Fiction, Sex role -- Fiction, Mentally ill women -- Fiction, Feminist fiction, Psychological fiction, I
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Subjects: PS, Married women -- Psychology -- Fiction, Sex role -- Fiction, Mentally ill women -- Fiction, Feminist fiction, Psychological fiction, I
Downloads: 328
THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER is a short story by 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 physical and mental health. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from wh.
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