The short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe is narrated by a deranged man who kills an elderly man and hides the dismembered remains under the floorboards of his room.

In her nonfiction book Women and Economics (1898), Gilman contends that men and women share more similarities than differences and argues that women should enjoy all social and economic freedoms, including the right to work.

In The Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria (1887), Dr. S. Weir Mitchell describes his approach to treating nervous exhaustion in women. He promotes a "rest-cure," or complete bed rest, believing that intellectual, literary, and artistic activities are harmful to women's mental well-being.

The short story "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (1932) by American author Conrad Aiken delves into the hallucinations of a sensitive young boy named Paul Haslemann.

The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) by Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert analyzes how nineteenth-century female authors, including Gilman and Charlotte Bronte, expressed repressed emotions in their literature.

The Awakening (1899), a novel by American writer Kate Chopin, tells the story of a traditional wife and mother who, after having an extramarital affair, takes her own life when she realizes she cannot reconcile her actions with society's moral constraints.