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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman,

Elaine R. Hedges (Afterword)

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Feb 26, 2023 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I woke up around midnight last night unexpectedly, and, in an attempt to go back to sleep, started listening to an audiobook. I've had The Yellow Wallpaper on my list to read for The Classics Club for a long time, and I had just found an audiobook on Hoopla yesterday, so I decided to start it when I woke up in the night.

Well, I was able to start it and finish it! It was only forty-five minutes, a little over sixty pages. I had no idea it was so short, or perhaps I would have read it long ago.

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Jun 21, 2021 Linda Martin rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021, gaaaaaah, short-stories, horror, psychology, suspense

The woman in this story may have had mental instability all along, but being forced into a room with dreadful yellow wallpaper and barred windows exacerbated her problems - or was it the multiple medications her physician-husband kept forcing on her?

It is hard to tell how much of this was fantasy and how much was real.

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Mar 16, 2019 Fee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A charming collection of stories from Charlotte Gilman, most notably remembered as the author of high school favourite The Yellow Wallpaper, a searing depiction of the slide into mental disarray masked in a cloak of horror fiction.

This collection highlights just how anachronistic Gilman was, and firmly casts her as a pioneer of first wave feminism. Her frustration at the dismissiveness she had to deal with because of her sex is palpable throughout, and many of the questions posed in her stories ...more

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