It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
An edition of The Yellow Wallpaper
(1892)
The yellow wallpaper.
[1st ed.]
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"First published in 1892, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. In the involuntary confinement of her bedroom, the hero creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper--a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, "The Yellow Wallpaper" stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one woman's descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women."--Goodreads.
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hp lovecraft, Literature, Special collections, Cynthia Hilden, Married women, Psychology, Fiction, Mentally ill women, Sex role, Whitman College, Gilman, charlotte perkins , 1860-1935, Feminism and literature, Feminism and literature--united states, Women and literature, Women and literature--united states, Sex role in literature, Married women--psychology, Married women--psychology--fiction, Mentally ill women--fiction, Sex role--fiction, Ps1744.g57 y4534 1993, 813/.4, Literary criticism, American, Marriage, Mentally ill persons, Depression, postpartum, Ps1744.g57 y45 1996, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, Mentally ill women in literature, Married women in literature, The yellow wallpaper (Gilman), Mental illness, Women, Library, Personal copy, American literatureShowing 7 featured editions. View all 537 editions?
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Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 1899 ed. published by Small, Maynard, Boston.
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