The yellow wallpaper.
By: Afterword by Elaine R. Hedges.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Feminist Press reprint no. 3
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Married women -- Psychology -- Fiction; Mentally ill women -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction
Description: "First published in 1892, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. In the involuntary confinement of her bedroom, the hero creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper--a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, "The Yellow Wallpaper" stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one woman's descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women."--Goodreads.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 1899 ed. published by Small, Maynard, Boston.