Publisher's Synopsis
The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by American literature & fiction writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and first published in January 1892. The Yellow Wallpaper is a women's fiction novel which is also semi-autobiographical and 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 Yellow Wallpaper is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband named John has rented an old mansion for the summer. The genre fiction story depicts the effect of understimulation on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. In addition to writing classic women's fiction, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer of social reform. The Yellow Wallpaper, is considered by many to be Charlotte Perkins Gilman's best work, she is also the author of the popular classic book Herland.
