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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband, a woman is confined to an upstairs bedroom. Descending into psychosis at the complete lack of stimulation, she starts obsessing over the room's yellow wallpaper: "It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper - the smell! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Yellow Wallpaper
• Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24
• EAN: 9781613820322
• ISBN: 9781613820322
• ID: 05351369
• Publisher: Simon & Brown
• Weight: 56 g
• Dimensions: 141 × 198 × 2 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. April 2011

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