The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2009
Summary
Based on the author’s own experiences, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America’s leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece, ‘The Yello…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085583 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844085589 |
| Author: | Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maggie O'Farrell |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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“A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect.”
A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect - Maggie O’Farrell
A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect - Maggie O’FarrellAbout The Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Anna Perkins (1860-1935) married at the age of twenty-four, but three years later separated from her husband. She was a writer of non-fiction and poetry, an editor, feminist theorist, and most of her work is about the status and oppression of women. She married again in 1900 but committed suicide a year after her husband died of inoperable cancer.
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