The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
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Published:
24 February, 2021
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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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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781913724160 |
| ISBN10 | 1913724166 |
| Number Of Pages | 64 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Renard Press Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
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'Quite apart from its origins [it] is one of the finest, and strongest, tales of horror ever written.' (Alan Ryan)
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Author's Bio
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was an American writer and lecturer known for her humanist and feminist writing. She is best known today for her seminal short story The Yellow Wallpaper, a blistering indictment of the rest cure, which is one of the most important American feminist titles of all time.