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The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women during that period. Duration - 35m. Author - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Narrator - Mary Robinson. Published Date - Saturday, 13 January 2024. Copyright - © 2020 JSX Publishing Inc. ©.

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United States

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Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women during that period. Duration - 35m. Author - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Narrator - Mary Robinson. Published Date - Saturday, 13 January 2024. Copyright - © 2020 JSX Publishing Inc. ©.

Language:

English


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