In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a warning – in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a room and forbidden to do anything interesting – and she loses her mind.
In 1887, following a severe nervous breakdown, Gilman had been sent to a leading neurologist, she explains in ‘Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper’, also included in this volume. He was a ‘wise man’ who ‘put me to bed and applied the rest cure… and sent me home with solemn advice to “live as domestic a life as far as possible”… and “never to touch pen, brush or pencil again” as long as I lived. I went home and obeyed those directions for some three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin that I could see over.’
The Yellow Wallpaper is both a haunting illustration of the treatment of mental health and a chilling Gothic tale, and this new edition makes it ready to enchant another generation of readers.
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781913724160
Number of pages: 64
Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm
'Quite apart from its origins [it] is one of the finest, and strongest, tales of horror ever written.' (Alan Ryan)
This is perfectly creepy, the way it keeps subtley and slowly turning on its side until it is upside down makes your eyes wide and your skin tingle.
A wonderfully disturbing story! You feel the pain of all the characters, not just the leading lady even though everything is through her eyes. With that being said you get so sucked into her way of thinking that you... More
This collection includes six stories, all published between 1892 and 1914 and all unexpectedly relevant and modern in their message. I think my favourites were 'Making a Change', the story of a young family... More
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