The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Length
- 3 mornings, about 2,000 words a reading
About the book
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in The New England Magazine in January 1892 under her name at the time, Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Gilman drew on her own experience. After the birth of her daughter she suffered a severe depression and was prescribed a rest cure that forbade her to write or work, which she later said brought her near to madness. She said she wrote the story to warn others away from that treatment.
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