The Yellow Wallpaper

<p>'It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The color is repellent . . . In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange provoking formless sort of figure that seems to skulk about . . .'</p><p>Based on the author's own experiences The Yellow Wallpaper is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the 'rest cure' prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion in a room with bars on the windows the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind.</p><p>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 Wallpaper 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.</p>