It is stripped off
- the paper
- in great patches.. . The colour is repellent.. . In the places where it isn't faded & where the sun is just so
- I can see a strange provoking formless sort of figure that seems to skulk about.. .' 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. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece ' The Yellow Wallpaper' this new edition
Includes:: a selection of her best short fiction & extracts from her autobiography.