The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (186-1935) championed womens rights in her prolific fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Discover t... (more)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (186-1935) championed womens rights in her prolific fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Discover three influential works by one of Americas first feminists in their unabridged form: the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, a haunting interpretation of postpartum depression; the feminist utopian novel Herland; and Women and Economics, which when published in 1898 established Gilman as a sociologist, philosopher, ethicist, and social critic, and is considered by many to be her greatest work. (less)

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This first person narrative is an important work of American feminist literature, tracing a woman's descent into psychos... (more)

This first person narrative is an important work of American feminist literature, tracing a woman's descent into psychosis when her doctor prescribes a 'rest cure.' (less)