The narrator’s husband, John, a respected. Known primarily for her classic and haunting story The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and. What they find surprises them all they’re captured by women who, for two thousand years, have lived in a peaceful and prosperous utopia without men. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that describes the narrator’s depression following the birth of her child. In Herland, a trio of men set out to discover an all-female community rumoured to be hidden deep in the jungle. This chilling story is based on the author’s own experience of depression. This edition is introduced by journalist and author Lucy Mangan.Ĭonfined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper 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. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Charlotte Perkins Gilman had a difficult childhood after her father abandoned her family while she was still an infant. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. The Yellow Wallpaper skillfully charts one woman's struggle with depression whilst Herland is an entertaining imagining of an all female utopia. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous stories.
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