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"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story ") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman , first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine . [ 1 ]
The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an anthology of essays about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story The Yellow Wallpaper.Edited by Catherine Golden, it was published in 1992 by The Feminist Press. [1]
One literary scholar connected the regression of the female narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" to the parallel status of domesticated felines. [64] She wrote in a letter to the Saturday Evening Post that the automobile would eliminate the cruelty to horses used to pull carriages and cars.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Full text at Project Gutenberg) "Afterward (short story)" (1910) by Edith Wharton "The Rats in the Walls" (1924) by H.P. Lovecraft; Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner "The Lottery" (1948) by Shirley Jackson; The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" serves as a good example of psychological violence inflicted by both a mental condition and other characters. Its narrator is a young woman suffering from postpartum depression , and though it causes her significant distress, her pain is heightened by her husband and doctor's neglect ...
He quickly rejected the story, later published as "The Yellow Wallpaper", telling Gilman, "I could not forgive myself if I made others as miserable as I have made myself!" [ 4 ] His predecessor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich , was not impressed by Scudder's tenure and joked with the pun that Horace Scudder was greater than Moses because "Moses dried up ...
“When "The Yellow Wallpaper" first came out, the public didn’t quite understand the message. The piece was treated as a horror story, kind of like the 19th century equivalent to The Exorcist. Nowadays, however, we understand "The Yellow Wallpaper" as an early feminist work.… but that people back in the 19th century just didn’t get that.”
"Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" from The Forerunner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1913) [95] A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States, Eugene A. Hecker (1914) [96] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915) [97]