"The Yellow Wallpaper"Yellowwp med.jpg1988 edition coverAuthorCharlotte Perkins GilmanCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenre(s) Captivity narrative, feminist literaturePublication date1892"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 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. 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.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	August 9, 2018
ISBN13	9781724623225
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	34
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 2 mm · 58 g
Language	English

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