The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Modern Library, Nov 28, 2000 - Fiction - 348 pages

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."--Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a leading figure in the women's movement of the early twentieth century, is a pillar of the American feminist canon. This edition of her work includes her best-known story, "The Yellow Wall-paper," a terrifying tale about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the "rest cure" she is ordered to follow by her doctor to relieve her postpartum depression. Also included is a wide range of other short stories; an abridged version of her little-known but brilliant utopian novel, Herland, about a peaceful all-female world; and selections from her landmark treatise, Women and Economics, first published in 1898 to universal acclaim.

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User Review  - Mandi Jane - Goodreads

This review contains spoilers. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story about an unnamed woman who has been diagnosed with 'temporary nervous depression with a slight hysterical tendency' after the birth ...

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User Review  - .þµŋψà. [Punya Reviews...] - Goodreads

This review is not exactly a 'review' in that sense, rather my analysis from my MA dissertation on The Yellow Wallpaper (only). I loved it; it made me sad and depressed, still I loved it. CPG was an ...

Contents

• IV: 3
• V: 21
• VI: 31

About the author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was the author of novels, short sto ries, poems, and works of nonfiction. She is best known for The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892), Women and Economics (1898), and the novel Herland (1 915). Her novel The Crux (1910) is also published by Duke University Press. Charlotte J. Rich is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. She is editor of The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter.

Black has travelled extensively throughout Asia and Latin America. He writes articles on design, interiors, fashion, and culture for magazines and newspapers in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings; Modern Library Classics; Modern Library
• Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Editor: Alexander Black
• Contributor: Alexander Black
• Edition: abridged
• Publisher: Modern Library, 2000
• ISBN: 0679783407, 9780679783404
• Length: 348 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Women; Women/ Literary collections