The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
English • Published 1892 • Public Domain • Free to stream
Published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is one of the most unsettling short stories ever written. Charlotte Perkins Gilman drew on her own terrifying experience of the "rest cure" — a Victorian treatment for nervous disorders that prescribed complete mental inactivity — to craft this first-person account of a woman slowly losing her mind in a rented summer house. Confined to a room with hideous yellow wallpaper, she begins to see a woman trapped behind the pattern, creeping along the walls. Haunting, claustrophobic and brilliantly written, it reads as both a gothic horror story and a devastating critique of how women were treated by medicine and marriage in the 19th century.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in 1892.
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The Yellow Wallpaper was first published in 1892. It is now in the public domain and free to stream.
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The Yellow Wallpaper is classic literature. It is a classic work of literature now in the public domain.