Research Guides: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: Books

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"The Yellow Wallpaper" in Short Stories for Students by Kathleen Wilson (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780787616908
Publication Date: 1997-09-15
It contains concise synopses of the plots, characters and themes along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism.
Wild Unrest by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780199739806
Publication Date: 2010-11-18
In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. "The Yellow Wall-Paper" captured a woman's harrowing descent into madness and drew on the author's intimate knowledge of mental illness. Like the narrator of her story, Gilman was a victim of what was termed "neurasthenia" or "hysteria"--a "bad case of the nerves." She had faced depressive episodes since adolescence, and with the arrival of marriage and motherhood, they deepened. In 1887 she suffered a severe breakdown and sought the "rest cure" of famed neurologist S. Weir Mitchell. Her marriage was a troubled one, and in the years that followed she separated from and ultimately divorced her husband. It was at this point, however, that Gilman embarked on what would become an influential career as an author, lecturer, and advocate for women's rights.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Thomas L. Erskine (Editor, Introduction by); Connie L. Richards (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: PS1744.G57 Y4534 1993
ISBN: 0813519934
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Includes critical essays about " The Yellow Wallpaper" from a variety of perspectives

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