The Yellow Wallpaper: A Story
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in 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. The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband — a physician — 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 entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has diagnosed as a "temporary nervous depression — a slight hysterical tendency;" a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.
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Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pages
15
Publisher
Oregan Publishing
Published Date
2018-05-02
ISBN
229101871X 9782291018711
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"exceptionally good as woman-centered horror, sort of an early stepford wives. the author was instructed to stay on bedrest for post-partum depression by male doctors, and noted it made her feel incredibly worse! so she wrote it into a horror story with an unreliable narrator, who listens to this garbage advice and is forced/guilt-tripped into isolation and insomnia through lack of exercise and stimulation. fun story.
read it aloud to my wife during halloween while we waited for the trick-or-treaters and she loved it too."