An edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

The Yellow Wallpaper

[1st ed.]

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Cover of: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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An edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

The Yellow Wallpaper

[1st ed.]

by

  • 4.2 (103 ratings)
  • 594 Want to read
  • 38 Currently reading
  • 191 Have read

"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."--Goodreads.

Publish Date
Publisher
The Feminist Press
Language
English
Pages
63

Previews available in: English

Subjects

Literature Special collections Cynthia Hilden Married women Psychology Fiction Mentally ill women Sex role Whitman College Gilman, charlotte perkins , 1860-1935 Feminism and literature Feminism and literature--united states Women and literature Women and literature--united states Sex role in literature Married women--psychology Married women--psychology--fiction Mentally ill women--fiction Sex role--fiction Ps1744.g57 y4534 1993 813/.4 Literary criticism American Marriage Mentally ill persons Depression, postpartum Ps1744.g57 y45 1996 Fiction, short stories (single author) Fiction, psychological Married people, fiction Mentally ill women in literature Married women in literature The yellow wallpaper (Gilman) Mental illness Women Library Personal copy American literature Sources Social conditions Medicine in Literature American fiction Fiction, general Fiction, horror Women, mental health Artists' books Gothic fiction Gothic Horror Feminist literature Fiction in English Femmes mariées Romans, nouvelles Psychologie Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale Rôle selon le sexe Feminist fiction, American History and criticism American Feminist fiction American literature, women authors American literature, history and criticism Non-English Fiction Postpartum Depression

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London Perth Nairobi Oaxaca United States

Times

20th century Late Victorian/Edwardian era

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1993, Rutgers University Press
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The Yellow Wallpaper
1973, The Feminist Press
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The Yellow Wall Paper
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The Yellow Wall Paper
1901, Small, Maynard
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The Yellow Wall Paper
1899, Small, Maynard & Company
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Book Details

First Sentence

"It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer."

Table of Contents

The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Page 9
Afterword
by Elaine R. Hedges
Page 37

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 1899 ed. published by Small, Maynard, Boston.

Published in
New York
Series
Feminist Press reprint no. 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PZ3.G4204 Ye6, PS1744.G57 Ye6

Contributors

Afterword
Elaine R. Hedges

The Physical Object

Pagination
63 p.
Number of pages
63

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5414223M
Internet Archive
yellowwallpaper00gilm
ISBN 10
0912670096
LCCN
73005795
OCLC/WorldCat
614207
LibraryThing
5509
Goodreads
1042075

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2772007W

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Work Description

Specially printed limited edition release for the Miskatonic Literary Society.

Excerpts

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
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