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Part of the Gibbs Smith Women's Voices series: A collection of literary voices written by, and for, extraordinary women--to encourage, challenge, and inspire. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) championed women's rights in her prolific fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Discover three influential works by one of America's 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. Continue your journey in the Women's Voices series with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5099-7), The Feminist Papers,by Mary Wollstonecraft (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5097-3), Hope Is the Thing with Feathers,the complete poems of Emily Dickinson (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5098-0), and Little Women,by Louisa May Alcott (ISBN: 978-1-4236-5211-3).… (more)
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Gilman found that rather than curing her of her depression, the treatment severely worsened it. Eventually she decided that the best thing for her was to reengage in normal activity. This successfully cured her condition, and she decided to write the story, embellished with a few exaggerations, to show the dangers of this kind of treatment. Besides being an enthralling read, The Yellow Wallpaper serves as an important social commentary on women, their feelings and emotions, and their place in 19th-century America.
It was an interesting and thought provoking book about a womanecent into madness. I thought it was very well written, quite sinister in tone and quite tragic really. I could
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a great feminist thinker, and author of many books on social architecture, as well as other fiction and non-fiction.