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First published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is one of the most chilling and important short stories in American literature.
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A woman, taken to a country house for a rest cure and forbidden by her physician husband to write or work, keeps a secret journal, and begins to see, in the sprawling yellow paper of her room, a figure creeping behind the pattern.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman drew the story from her own descent under the same treatment. It stands as both a masterpiece of gothic dread and a searing protest against how women’s minds were dismissed and confined.
This Northlume Library edition pairs the story with Gilman’s own short essay, Why I Wrote The Yellow Wall-Paper (1913), behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
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- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
- With her essay Why I Wrote The Yellow Wall-Paper (1913)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 30 pages