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"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary…

As powerful today as it was upon publication in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is an important, widely anthologized story of a descent into psychosis from America’s leading early 20th-century feminist intellectual. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has…

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the…

A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband's controlling behavior in the guise of treatment will leave you breathless.

Американская семья вынуждена была снять в аренду на время ремонта их квартиры родовое поместье. Главной героине, жене Джона, очень не понравились жёлтые обои в их комнате, которую они сделали спальней. Обои были аляповатые, их цвет был отталкивающим, а узор побуждал к исследованию и наблюдению; казалось, что что-то не так с этими обоями.

Американская семья вынуждена была снять в аренду на время ремонта их квартиры родовое поместье. Главной героине, жене Джона, очень не понравились жёлтые обои в их комнате, которую они сделали спальней. Обои были аляповатые, их цвет был отталкивающим, а узор побуждал к исследованию и наблюдению; казалось, что что-то не так с этими обоями.

Американская семья вынуждена была снять в аренду на время ремонта их квартиры родовое поместье. Главной героине, жене Джона, очень не понравились жёлтые обои в их комнате, которую они сделали спальней. Обои были аляповатые, их цвет был отталкивающим, а узор побуждал к исследованию и наблюдению; казалось, что что-то не так с этими обоями.

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) ist das zweite Kind von Mary A. Finch und Frederick B. Perkins, einem Neffen von Harriet Beecher Stowe, der Autorin von «Onkel Toms H?tte». Der Vater, Schriftsteller und Bibliothekar, verl?sst die Familie bald. Die Mutter schl?gt die Familie mit Gelegenheitsarbeiten durch. Gilman besucht die Kunstgewerbeschule, danach entwirft sie Gru?postkarten und arbeitet als Hauslehrerin. 1884 heiratet sie den Kunstmaler Charles Walter Stetson und bekommt von ihm 1885 eine Tochter. Nach der Geburt hat Charlotte Perkins Gilman tiefe Depressionen. Ein Spezialist in Philadelphia verordnet ihr eine Ruhekur, bei der…

The Yellow Wallpaper is a fascinating portrayal of a woman's descent into psychosis through being confined 'for her own good' by her well-meaning husband to cure her of mild hysteria. It's an absolutely mesmerizing short story that draws the reader deep into the disturbed mind of the narrator to the point of sharing her distorted view of the world. Despite being a prolific writer throughout her lifetime, it is this short story for which Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best known and the tale remains as vivid and immediate today as it was upon first publication over a century ago.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband – a physician – has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has…