The Yellow Wallpaper

About the author

Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper after a physician prescribed her a rest that forbade work. The story is short, domestic, and relentless about what that kind of care does to a mind. More of this shelf for Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Where to read it

• Open Library work
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• Project Gutenberg page

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