Today we’re looking at “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman (1860-1935). Like her coeval writers, Pauline E. Hopkins and Charles Chestnutt, and her aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe, Perkins Gilman wrote for a social purpose. In this case, her writing served to free women from the “rest cure,” a then-popular treatment for post-partum de…
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