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The Yellow Wallpaper
| Alternate Title: | The Yellow Wall-Paper |
| Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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Feminist Press, 1973 Small, Maynard & Co., 1899 New England Magazine, 1892 |
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| Book Type: | Novelette |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
In this classic late-nineteenth-century story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a new mother suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum depression', is diagnosed with a nervous disorder.
Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.
This novelette originally appeared in New England Magazine, January 1892, before being published as a standalone volume in 1899. The story has been reprinted many times. Among others, it can be found in the anthologies:
- American Mystery Stories (1927), edited by Carolyn Wells
- The Haunted Omnibus (1937), edited by Alexander Laing
- More Macabre (1961), edited by Donald A. Wollheim
- House Shudders (1987), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
- The Dark Descent: The Evolution of Horror (1987), edited by David G. Hartwell
- American Gothic Tales (1996), edited by Joyce Carol Oates
- The American Fantasy Tradition (2002), edited by Brian M. Thomsen
- H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre (2007), edited by Stephen Jones
- American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009), edited by Peter Straub
The story is included in the collections Herland: and Selected Stories (1992) and The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings (2009).
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