The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story published in January 1892. This landmark work of feminist literature and horror fiction follows a woman confined to a nursery by her physician husband as treatment for "temporary nervous depression." Forbidden from working or writing, she documents her experience through secret journal entries. With nothing to occupy her mind but the room's disturbing yellow wallpaper, she descends into madness, becoming obsessed with its strange patterns and the figures she perceives within it. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
Title The Yellow Wallpaper
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper
Credits An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 89.5 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Mentally ill women -- Fiction
Subject Feminist fiction
Subject Married women -- Psychology -- Fiction
Subject Sex role -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 1952
Release Date
Last Update Aug 31, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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