The Yellow Wallpaper is a 6,000-word short story by the Americanwriter Charlotte Perkins Gilman, originally printed in January 1892 inThe New England Magazine. It is one of the main references within theAmerican feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19thcentury toward women's physical and mental health.The story portraysthe results of dete

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. It features her pioneering feminist masterpiece, her neglected stories contemporary with The Yellow Wall-Paper, and her later explorations of `the woman of fifty'. The introduction to this edition places Gilman in the cultural and historical context of the American divided self, her Beecher heritage, and her contribution to the female Gothic.