Original "Yellow Wallpaper" Manuscript
- Title
- Original "Yellow Wallpaper" Manuscript
- Description
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's most famous work brings the reader into the mind of a woman on the rest cure. With the male figures in her life as her captors, the narrator is forced into a room with nothing to do but think. What's surprising about Gilman's story is the fact that it was so widely celebrated when it was a clear form of resistence against the forms of control over the female body in the late 19th century. Was it simply cognitive dissonance where her audience could believe the story to be entirely fiction, or did her writing stand in to support women who could not share their voices?
- Creator
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Date
- 1892
- Contributor
- Kate Eng
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Citation
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Original "Yellow Wallpaper" Manuscript,” Excavating Histories: Archival Research Methods, accessed April 25, 2026, https://archive.engl.sites.carleton.edu/items/show/35.