The Yellow Wall-Paper

The Yellow Wall-Paper image
ISBN-10:

1492977446

ISBN-13:

9781492977445

Released: Oct 13, 2013
Format: Paperback, 26 pages
to view more data

Description:

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 what he calls a “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency,” a diagnosis common to women in that period.












We're an Amazon Associate. We earn from qualifying purchases at Amazon and all stores listed here.