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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maggie O'Farrell, Elaine Hedges
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About this book

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...

Book Details

ISBN13 9780860682011
ISBN10 0860682013
Series/Work OL2772007W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Virago
Pages 64
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At April 18, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

813/.4 American Cynthia Hilden Depression, postpartum Feminism and literature Feminism and literature--united states Fiction Fiction, psychological Fiction, short stories (single author) Gilman, charlotte perkins , 1860-1935 hp lovecraft Literary criticism Literature Marriage Married people, fiction Married women Married women in literature Married women--psychology Married women--psychology--fiction Mentally ill persons

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