Dec 22, 2009

The Yellow Wallpaper | The Yellow Wallpaper

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Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
First Published: 1892
Genres: Psychological fiction, Social realism, Short fiction, Women’s literature
Subjects: Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Power, personal or social, Sexism, Gender roles, Psychology or psychologists, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Doctors, New England, Mental illness, Reality, Feminism, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women, Imagination, Depression, mental
Locales: East (U.S.), New England

The Work

The Yellow Wallpaper is an autobiographical novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in which she describes the treatment of women during a rest cure prescribed for nervous disorders by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, who was a famous physician. The story describes the submissive, childlike obedience of women to men authority figures that was considered typical at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Charlotte, the protagonist of the story, is helpless to express her own needs. She is taken by her husband, John, to a country house so that she can recuperate from a...

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The Yellow Wallpaper | The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Work

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