First published in 1982, 'The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories' is
regarded as a groundbreaking feminist masterwork and one of the most
magnificent horror stories in American literature, written by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer,
advocate for social reform, and eugenicist.
It portrays a critical reflection of nineteenth-century mindsets toward
women's physical and mental health. Written as a compilation of journal
entries by a woman whose physician husband has restricted her to her
bedroom, the story represents the narrator's collapse into psychosis as
her imprisonment slowly worsens her mind. This collection also includes
the stories 'The Giant Wistaria', 'According to Solomon', 'The Boys and
the Butter', 'Her Housekeeper', 'Martha's Mother', 'A Middle-Sized
Artist', 'An Offender', 'When I Was a Witch', 'The Cottagette', 'Making
a Living', and 'Mr. Robert Grey Sr.' It is not only an American literary
classic, but it also delivers an understanding of America's social
history.