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  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. Dom

    eBook (Rudram Publishing, March 15, 2016)
    "The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    1860-1935 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

    eBook (HardPress, Oct. 28, 2015)
    HardPress Classic Books Series
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 24, 2013)
    The classic narrative study of Gilman's own depression and a compelling study of the burgeoning feminism in the early twentieth century. "Every kind of creature is developed by the exercise of its functions. If denied the exercise of its functions, it can not develop in the fullest degree." —Charlotte Perkins Stetson A journal of the descent into madness of a woman suffering from a ''temporary nervous depression — a slight hysterical tendency.'' Hints throughout the story suggest the woman's problem is the recent birth of her child, insinuating postpartum depression. Confined in an upstairs room to recuperate by her well-meaning but dictatorial and oblivious husband, the yellow wallpaper in the room becomes the focal point of her growing insanity. “For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia—and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise man put me to bed and applied the rest cure, to which a still good physique responded so promptly that he concluded that there was nothing much the matter with me, and sent me home with solemn advice to 'live as domestic a life as possible,' to 'have but two hours' intelligent life a day,' and 'never to touch pen, brush or pencil again as long as I lived.' This was in 1887…" —Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wall-paper," 1913
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sept. 29, 2014)
    Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whose physician husband (John) has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 16, 2016)
    "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. The room's windows are barred to prevent children from climbing through them, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, though she and her husband have access to the rest of the house and its adjoining estate.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (Simon & Brown, April 27, 2011)
    Based on the 1892 New England Magazine text, this teaching edition of The Yellow Wallpaper includes a generous selection of historical materials. The documents are organized into thematic units and features nineteenth-century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature of women's sexuality; social reform literature concerning women's rights, the working classes, and immigration; and excerpts from periodicals, diaries, and writers' notebooks that give students a sense of the changing literary scene that Gilman entered. Editorial features designed to help students read the novel in light of the documents include a general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology o Hawthorne's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a generous selection of illustrations, and a selected bibliography.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 26, 2017)
    "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
  • The Yellow Wall Paper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (Nabu Press, Jan. 1, 2010)
    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 5, 2017)
    Full text.First published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. In the involuntary confinement of her bedroom, the hero creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper--a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, The Yellow Wallpaper stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one woman’s descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Aug. 15, 2015)
    Told in a journal like fashion, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is narrated by a nineteenth century woman whose husband, a physician, has rented an old mansion for the summer to provide her an opportunity to recuperate from what he describes as “a temporary nervous depression." He insists that she refrain from all work, but with nothing to stimulate her she becomes obsessed with the pattern and color of the wallpaper. The story has been cited as a condemnation of the androcentric hegemony of the 19th-century medical profession, and is largely regarded as one of the most important feminist texts ever written.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yordi Abreu

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 11, 2016)
    Is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 30, 2016)
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman's masterpiece of a woman's decline into mental illness.