The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman Charlotte Perkins
The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman Charlotte Perkins 2023 Hardcover Reprint of 1892 Edition. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician…
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The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman Charlotte Perkins
2023 Hardcover Reprint of 1892 Edition. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. This short story is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women in that period. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. Gilman used her writing to explore the role of women in America at the time.
She explored issues such as the lack of a life outside the home
The Yellow Wallpaper