The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935)

nElaine Hedges introduced the text in the canon in 1973, rescuing it from literary obscurity .

Gilman was an advocate of social motherhood.

nshe had little formal education

nActivism on behalf of women; yet conservative in her racial views.

A descent into madness, and one helped by family and doctors. 

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