The Yellow Wallpaper
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The Yellow Wallpaper

Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Year Published:
1892
Language:
English
Genre:
Short Story
Description:

This “The Yellow Wallpaper” short summary covers all 12 journal entries that comprise the book. Written from the perspective of the narrator as she describes her confinement to a room at the top of a summer house and her slow obsession with the yellow paper that drives her to madness. The book is considered one of the first works of early American feminist literature and shows the attitude towards women’s mental health in the late 19th century.