The Yellow Wallpaper
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by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 21 Sep, 2024
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an American author and prominent feminist social reformer. First published in 1892 and Gilman's most famous work, It is a chilling tale that follows an unnamed woman, th ... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an American author and prominent feminist social reformer. First published in 1892 and Gilman's most famous work, It is a chilling tale that follows an unnamed woman, the narrator, who is suffering from a nervous condition. She and her husband, John, rent a country house for the summer, where she is confined to a room with yellow wallpaper. As the weeks pass, the narrator becomes increasingly obsessed with the patterns and imagery of the wallpaper, causing her to believe a woman is trapped behind it.

 

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman(July 3,1860 – Aug 17,1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopi...
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