The Yellow Wallpaper - Softcover

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1613823681 ISBN 13: 9781613823682

Publisher: Simon & Brown, 2011

Synopsis

The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

About this title

Book Description:

First published in 1892, this perfect novel portrays with chilling power the powerlessness of women within Victorian marriage.

About the Author:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendant of the prominent and influential Beecher family. In 1884 she married Charles Water Stetson. After giving birth, Charlotte sank into a deep depression. She entered a sanitarium in Philadelphia to undergo the 'rest cure', a controversial treatment, which forbade any type of physical activity or intellectual stimulation. 1892, she published the now-famous story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'. In 1898, her most famous nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published. With its publication, and subsequent translation into seven languages, Gilman earned international acclaim. In 1900, she married her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman. Over the next thirty-five years, she wrote and published hundreds of stories and poems and more than a dozen books.

Denise D. Knight is a professor of English at the State University of New York at Courtland, where she specializes in nineteenth-century American Literature. She is author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction and editor of The Later Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. She is also the author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews on nineteenth-century American writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Brown
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1613823681
• ISBN 13: 9781613823682
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24