The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

• ISBN13: 9780553213751
• ISBN10: 055321375X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-01
• Publisher: Bantam Classics

Summary

Seven charming tales explore relations between the sexes and offer witty insights from a feminist perspective. Includes the 1892 title classic, plus "Cottagette," "Turned," "Mr. Peebles' Heart," and more.

Author Biography

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, feminist, author, critic, and theorist, was born on July 3 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson, gave birth to a daughter the following year, and was subsequently overcome by bouts of depression, which nearly caused her complete breakdown. Finally she fled to California and created a scandal by obtaining a divorce and granting custody of her daughter to her husband. In 1892 her story The Yellow Wallpaper appeared, and she began her writing and social activism in earnest. She became a contributing editor to THE AMERICAN FABIAN and fought for reforms based on her socialist and feminist ideals. Her most famous book, Women and Economics (1898), was translated into seven languages, winning her international recognition. In 1900 she married George Houghton Gilman. For seven years she wrote and edited her own magazine, The Forerunner, and she wrote ten more books, including The Home (1902), Human Works (1904), and The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture (1911). Her famous utopian novel, Herland, appeared in 1915. She committed suicide in 1935 while dying from breast cancer.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Yellow Wallpaper: A Story and a Life

Literature

About the Author

The Yellow Wallpaper

Discussion Questions

Research Questions

Secondary Sources

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper

Scudder's Comments on The Yellow Wallpaper

From The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

The Crown of Womanhood, 1884-1887

Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse inThe Yellow Wallpaper

"Overwriting" the Rest Cure

Gilman's Literary Escape from

Fictionalization of Women

From The Diaries of

Sample Student Research Paper

Concepts of Confinement and Escape in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

Bibliography

Fiction

Nonfiction

Verse

Bibliography

Biography

Criticism and Commentary

Electronic and Media Sources

Sound Recordings

World Wide Web Sites

Appendix: Documenting Sources

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