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Synopsis
Battling the inferior status accorded to women, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story The Yellow Wallpaper is the extraordinary story of one woman's journey into psychosis. Under the case of her physician husband who diagnoses her need for a rest cure, she spends the summer confined to the upstairs bedroom of a colonial mansion. Her only stimulus is the yellow patterned wall paper that lines the room. Her obsession escalates as the wallpaper comes to life—revealing a woman trapped behind the patterns. Her mission becomes painstakingly clear as she works tirelessly to free the woman from her bondage. The Yellow Wallpaper & Collected Stories also includes other works by Gilman: The Giant Wistaria, The Rocking Chair, The Cottagette, and Three Thanksgivings.
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About the Author
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, she created both fiction and non-fiction works that included novels, plays, poems, short stories and essays. As a social reformer, she supported women’s suffrage and promoted societal and economic independence. She was the youngest child of Frederick Beecher Perkins and Mary Ann Fitch Westcott. After her father abandoned the family when she was still an infant, her mother, her brother, and Charlotte lived in poverty for many years. Often times they were taken in by family, including her great aunt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, famous author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Gilman found solace in reading literature at a young age. By the time she was 15 years old, she had attended seven high schools. At the age of 18, she enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1884, Gilman married an artist by the name of Charles Walter Stetson, with whom she had her only child, a daughter named Katharine Beecher Stetson. After divorcing Stetson n 1894, she later married her cousin, Houghton Gilman in 1900. When he passed away in 1934, Gilman and her daughter moved to Pasadena, California. While in Pasadena, she organized social reform movements and represented California at a Woman’s Suffrage Convention in Washington D.C. Many of her essays, poems, and stories reflected her stalwart support for women’s rights. Her notoriously famous short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, became a best seller in the Feminist Press. She published her seven novels and novellas in her magazine, entitled, Forerunner.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1460970705
- ISBN 13 9781460970706
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages104
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