The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"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 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-01952-9 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 1999 |
| Last Update | Sep 16, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 52792 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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