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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781913724160
Paperback • 64pp • £6.99
129 mm x 198 mm
23/02/21
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The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

ISBN: 9781913724160
Paperback • 64pp
Published 23 February 2021

£6.99

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In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a warning – in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a room and forbidden to do anything interesting – and she loses her mind.

In 1887, following a severe nervous breakdown, Gilman had been sent to a leading neurologist, she explains in ‘Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper’, also included in this volume. He was a ‘wise man’ who ‘put me to bed and applied the rest cure… and sent me home with solemn advice to “live as domestic a life as far as possible”… and “never to touch pen, brush or pencil again” as long as I lived. I went home and obeyed those directions for some three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin that I could see over.’

The Yellow Wallpaper is both a haunting illustration of the treatment of mental health and a chilling Gothic tale, and this new edition makes it ready to enchant another generation of readers.

About the author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was an American writer and lecturer known for her humanist and feminist writing, best known today for The Yellow Wallpaper, a blistering indictment of the rest cure.

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