This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.
Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' presents a harrowing, disturbing account of mental stress, confinement and female turmoil - within which the only available solace can be found inside four peeling, sickly yellow walls .
The story details the descent of a young woman into madness.
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The book describes in detail how she sees imagined beings and ghostly sightings in the house.
In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now.
These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by journalist and author Lucy Mangan.
This volume features an author biography as well as her essay, ‘Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper’, not to be missed by fans of feminist writings.
You should grab it and read it to experience it yourself. Here's a simple plot to The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The story details an intricate period in the life of a young woman.
A critical edition of Gilman's turn-of-the-century feminist novel presents both manuscript and magazine versions, critically edited, and printed in parallel.