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The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader: The Yellow Wallpaper, and Other Fiction

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers. Probably best known as the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry, Gilman wrote numerous other short stories and novels reflecting her radical socialist and feminist view of turn-of-the-century America. Collected here by the noted Gilman scholar Ann J. Lane are eighteen stories and fragments, including a selection from Herland, Gilman's novel of a feminist utopia. The resulting anthology provides a provocative blueprint to Gilman's intellectual and creative production.

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The yellow wallpaper.

When I was a witch.

If I were a man.

The girl in the pink hat.

The cottagette.

The unnatural mother.

Making a change.

An honest woman.

Turned.

The widow's might.

Mr. Peebles' heart.

The crux.

What Diantha did

Benigna Machiavelli

Unpunished

Moving the mountain

Herland

With her in Ourland.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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