The Yellow Wallpaper

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Yellow Wallpaper
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction by Maggie O'Farrell
SeriesVirago Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:64
Dimensions(mm): Height 199,Width 134
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780860682011
ClassificationsDewey:813.4
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publication Date 30 April 1981
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...

Author Biography

Charlotte Anna Perkins (1860-1935) married at the age of twenty-four, but three years later separated from her husband. She was a writer of non-fiction and poetry, an editor, feminist theorist, and most of her work is about the status and oppression of women. She married again in 1900 but committed suicide a year after her husband died of inoperable cancer.