The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is the 1892 short story by the classic American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is one of the most notable modern feminist literary works. The story is told in first person as journal entries by a woman whose physician husband forbids her to work because of her "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency." The story culminates with the chronical of her descent into psychosis caused by the deeds of her husband and the revelation about postpartum. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.