(MENAFNEditorial) Just Released: New Collector's Edition of Classic Feminist Novella The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New collector's edition of Charlotte Gilman' timeless classic The Yellow Wallpaper just released. 'The Yellow Wallpaper. is a masterpiece and a scathing and moving indictment of the treatment of women at the turn of the century.
Written in the first person, it reflects the journal of a young wife and mother named Jane, whose well-meaning physician husband attempts to cure her of depression by removing her from all stimulation. He confines her to the attic nursery of a decaying mansion.
At the start of the journal, Jane is perfectly sane, and grateful for her husband's care. Gradually, however, she begins to fear the room in which she is held. At first, it is just a mild distaste for the unpleasant yellow wallpaper. But gradually she becomes obsessed with its pattern, which she cannot quite make sense of.
It begins to obsess her, and eventually she feels that it is haunted. She comes to believe there is a woman trapped behind the wallpaper, whom she must free. Increasingly obsessed, she is gradually reduced to madness, crawling about on the floor like the women of her fantasy, clawing at the wallpaper.
If you have enjoyed reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation or Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, you are bound to enjoy Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper.
This new paperback edition of the timeless classic The Yellow Wallpaper contains a well-curated collection of Charlotte Gilman' short stories including: If I Were a Man, When I Was a Witch, A Middle-Sized Artist, Turned, Her Housekeeper, Martha's Mother, Three Thanksgivings, The Barrel, Two Storks, A Coincidence, While The King Slept, The Cottagette, An Offender, Mr. Grey, A Word In Season and My Astonishing Dodo. The stories bristle with ingenious ways of balancing creative and domestic imperatives.
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