The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Ĭharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendant of the prominent and influential Beecher family. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. New York Times bestselling author Kate Bolick contributes an illuminating introduction that explores Gilman's fascinating yet complicated life.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman's major short stories and her poems.

Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper', Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive country from which men have been absent for two thousand years. Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman