Bibliographic information:
ISBN: 9781913724160
Paperback • 64pp • £6.99
129 mm x 198 mm
23 February 2021
BIC: FC, JFSJ1
Territory: World English

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Paperback

64pp

ISBN: 9781913724160

£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.

 
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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