The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings

Author(s): Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)

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It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .'


Based on the author's own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the 'rest cure' prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind.


Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece 'The Yellow Wallpaper', this new edition includes a selection of her best short fiction and extracts from her autobiography.

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Rowan writes: Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a fascinating character, a pioneer in the fields both of feminism, and psychological horror. Her mistress-piece, The Yellow Wallpaper, is a tale which combines both these themes in investigating the consequences of the way in which mentally ill women were treated in Victorian times by the complete removal of all stimulation, a which could be worse than the disease. A triumph of insightful social observation and dark psychological exploration.

Charlotte Anna Perkins (1860-1935) married at the age of twenty-four, but three years later separated from her husband. She was a writer of non-fiction and poetry, an editor, feminist theorist, and most of her work is about the status and oppression of women. She married again in 1900 but committed suicide a year after her husband died of inoperable cancer.

General Fields

  • : 9781844085583
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Virago Press
  • : 0.263084
  • : January 2009
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 25mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : General & literary fiction; Classic fiction; Novels, other prose & writers
  • : 384
  • : 813.4
  • : English
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)