Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - The Yellow Wallpaper | Paperback Short Story

Explore a seminal piece of American feminist literature with this 2018 reprint of the 1892 edition of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This powerful short story is presented in the first person through a collection of journal entries, offering a stark illustration of 19th-century attitudes toward women's mental and physical health.

• An important early work of American feminist literature.
• Illustrates 19th-century attitudes toward women's health.
• Narrated through journal entries by a woman undergoing a 'rest cure.'
• Explores themes of patriarchal oppression and the limited role of women in American society at the time.
• Gilman's work paved the way for later writers such as Alice Walker and Sylvia Plath.

The story follows an unnamed woman whose physician husband, John, rents an old mansion for the summer. As a treatment for what he diagnoses as a 'temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency,' the woman is forbidden from working and confined to the upstairs nursery. Her narrative details her confinement and deteriorating mental state.

Discover this foundational text that critiques the societal constraints placed upon women in the 19th century.