The Yellow Wallpaper

<p class=ql-align-justify>In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and created the avant-garde feminist work <em>The Yellow Wallpaper</em> as a warning - in this haunting Gothic tale a woman is confined to a room and forbidden to do anything interesting - and she loses her mind.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In 1887 following a severe nervous breakdown Gilman had been sent to a leading neurologist she explains in 'Why I Wrote <em>The Yellow Wallpaper</em>' also included in this volume. He was a 'wise man' who 'put me to bed and applied the rest cure... and sent me home with solemn advice to live as domestic a life as far as possible... and never to touch pen brush or pencil again as long as I lived. I went home and obeyed those directions for some three months and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin that I could see over.'</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>The Yellow Wallpaper</em> is both a haunting illustration of the treatment of mental health and a chilling Gothic tale and this new edition makes it ready to enchant another generation of readers.</p>