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The Yellow Wall-Paper

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781529955729

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Publication Date:

2nd December 2025

UK Publication Date:

4th September 2025

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Novella (Short Novel)
Epistolary fiction / fictional diaries
Coping with / advice about depression and other mood disorders
Fiction: gothic

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

144

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm

Weight:

200g

Description

The Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the depraved, delectable depths of women's weird fiction with nine novels by nine pioneering women. Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS- Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women's weird fiction. 'The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.' In the throes of a 'temporary nervous depression' following childbirth, a woman is brought by her physician husband to recuperate in an isolated New England mansion. There she is barred from her work of writing, denied any visits to friends, and encouraged to simply get better. Sequestered in the old nursery at the top of the house, with barred windows and a bed nailed to the floor, she has little to do but examine the strange wallpaper that surrounds her - and appears to shift before her very eyes. This is the tale of a woman driven to the brink and beyond. Here accompanied by Gilman's key wider stories, The Yellow Wallpaper endures as a groundbreaking, deeply disturbing classic of feminist horror. 'A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect' Maggie O'Farrell The Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

Author Bio

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Connecticut. She was a feminist and journalist and author of a number of fiction and non-fiction works. These include Women and Economics (1898), Concerning Children (1900), The Home- Its Work and Influence (1903) and Herland (1915). She is best remembered for her short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' which describes the descent of a woman into madness following a 'rest cure'. Unconventional in many ways, Gilman's life included two marriages and separation from her nine-year-old daughter, whom she sent to live with her ex-husband and his new wife. She was a Suffragette, a public speaker on social issues and the editor of a number of literary magazines during her career. In 1932, Gilman was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer and, as an advocate of euthanasia, she took the decision to commit suicide. She did this on 17 August 1935 by taking an overdose of chloroform.

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