The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America’s leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary with The Yellow Wallpaper, the fiction from her neglected California period (….Read More
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