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Two groundbreaking stories that showcase Charlotte Perkins Gilman's progressive views on feminism and mental health. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman skilfully charts one woman's struggle with depression, based on the author's own experiences. Confined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator keeps a secret diary in which she records the sprawling and shifting patterns of the room's lurid yellow wallpaper as she slowly sinks into madness. Herland offers an entertaining imagining of an all-female utopia; when a trio of men set out to discover this community rumoured to be hidden deep in the jungle, they're surprised to find women who have lived in a peaceful and prosperous society without men for two thousand years.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers, this edition makes a perfect gift or a treat for any book lover. With an insightful introduction by journalist and author Lucy Mangan.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Connecticut. Her father left when she was young and Gilman spent the rest of her childhood in poverty. As an adult she took classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and supported herself financially as a tutor, painter and artist. She had a short marriage with an artist and suffered serious postnatal depression after the birth of their daughter. In 1888 Gilman moved to California, where she became involved in feminist organizations. In California, she was inspired to write and she published The Yellow Wallpaper in The New England Magazine in 1892. In later life she was diagnosed with breast cancer and died by suicide in 1935.
Riassunto
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous short story on mental health, is brought together with her feminist utopian novel Herland in this giftable hardback introduced by Lucy Mangan.
Prefazione
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous short story on mental health, is brought together with her feminist utopian novel Herland in this giftable hardback introduced by Lucy Mangan.
Testo aggiuntivo
Gilman wrote her story about husbands, the medical profession and the patriarchy at large shaping and suppressing women’s lives and freedoms 126 years ago. It was only in 2015 that we got a name and a crime – coercive control – for most of what her heroine experiences
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The Yellow Wallpaper by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman created feminist fireworks the moment it appeared in the January 1892 edition of the New England Magazine Kathryn Hughes Guardian
