The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland

Two groundbreaking stories that showcase Charlotte Perkins Gilman's progressive views on feminism and mental health. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman skilfully charts one woman's struggle with depression, based on the author's own experiences. Confined to her attic bedroom and isolated from her newborn baby, the nameless narrator keeps a secret diary in which she records the sprawling and shifting patterns of the room's lurid yellow wallpaper as she slowly sinks into madness. Herland offers ...