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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction by Halle Butler

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction by Halle Butler

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction by Halle Butler

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction by Halle Butler

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    About The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings

    Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon—with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short stories, and novels had a single focus: equality for women. Although best known for “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” her spine-chilling takedown of the “rest cure” prescribed for postpartum depression, Gilman spent her life advocating for a woman’s right to an education, to creative self-expression and economic self-sufficiency, and an end to the consumerism that blinded women to the ways that society held them back. 
     
    This collection brings together Gilman’s best-known work with her lesser-known satirical short stories to provide an overarching introduction to this relentless ideologue.
     
    The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.

    About The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings

    Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon—with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short stories, and novels had a single focus: equality for women. Although best known for “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” her spine-chilling takedown of the “rest cure” prescribed for postpartum depression, Gilman spent her life advocating for a woman’s right to an education, to creative self-expression and economic self-sufficiency, and an end to the consumerism that blinded women to the ways that society held them back. 
     
    This collection brings together Gilman’s best-known work with her lesser-known satirical short stories to provide an overarching introduction to this relentless ideologue.
     
    The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.

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    About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist, author, critic, and theorist, was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson, gave birth to a daughter the following year, and was subsequently overcome by bouts of depression,… More about Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    About Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist, author, critic, and theorist, was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson, gave birth to a daughter the following year, and was subsequently overcome by bouts of depression,… More about Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Mar 02, 2021 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593231258

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Mar 02, 2021 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780593230343

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