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The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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A young mother, recovering from what we would now call postnatal depression, is taken by her physician husband to a rented country house for a 'rest cure'…

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Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Category
Horror
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

A young mother, recovering from what we would now call postnatal depression, is taken by her physician husband to a rented country house for a 'rest cure': no work, no visitors, no writing. Confined to an upstairs room with barred windows and torn yellow wallpaper, she keeps a secret journal, and as the weeks pass she becomes convinced that a woman is trapped behind the pattern of the paper, creeping and shaking it at night.

Context and significance

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) had been prescribed the same treatment herself and later wrote that she published the story in 1892 to save other women from it. This short story is now a classic of feminist literature and of psychological horror. Gilman was also a well-known lecturer and the author of Women and Economics and the utopian novel Herland.

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