The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland
Hardback
24 June 2021Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
Two groundbreaking stories that showcase Charlotte Perkins Gilman's progressive views on feminism and mental health. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman skilfully charts one woman's struggle with depression, based on the author's own experiences. Confined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator keeps a secret diary in which she records the sprawling and shifting patterns...
240 pages
9781529042320Details
24 June 2021240 pages
9781529042320Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
The Yellow Wallpaper by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman created feminist fireworks the moment it appeared in the January 1892 edition of the New England MagazineKathryn Hughes, Guardian
Gilman wrote her story about husbands, the medical profession and the patriarchy at large shaping and suppressing women’s lives and freedoms 126 years ago. It was only in 2015 that we got a name and a crime – coercive control – for most of what her heroine experiencesStylist
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