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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
2 chapters and parts · about 30 minutes to read
What the book is about
"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.
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- Feminist fiction
- Married women -- Psychology
- Mentally ill women
- Psychological fiction
- Sex role
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The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is in the public domain in the United States. Text from Project Gutenberg, eBook #1952, with thanks. Sureno removed Project Gutenberg's header and licence and set the text in large print; this is not an official Project Gutenberg edition. Outside the United States, check your own country's copyright rules before copying it.
