Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
eBook
(Cervantes Digital Jan. 11, 2019)
This edition includes 10 illustrations. The Victorian Era is known for its strictures, and no one felt the rigidity of the time more so than the women who lived then, subject first to their fathers and then their husbands. With the woman’s role clearly defined as limited to the hearth and home and to the bearing and raising of children, some dissatisfied voices spoke out, among them Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose groundbreaking short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” published in 1892, reveals in agonizing detail the consequences of one woman’s subordination, both physically and psychologically, making it a compelling early work of the modern feminism movement.