The Yellow Wallpaper: By Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Illustrated

The Yellow Wallpaper: By Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Illustrated

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About The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wallpaper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It 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. 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. Foregoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment she 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. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. Because it's a nursery the room's windows are barred, to prevent children from climbing through them, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, though she and her husband have access to the rest of the house and its adjoining estate.
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Gilman’s short story is one of my favourite narratives in American literary history. Within a rather frame, she manages to successfully depict the confinement women can feel in marriage and the dangers in diminishing female mental health issues as hysteria (she suffered from a wrongly diagnoses post-partum depression after the birth of her daughter). The protagonist in the story is confined in a nursery due to her rest cure, but also within her patriarchal marriage. With nothing to stimulate her mind, she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in the room and eventually escapes through descend into madness.

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