The Yellow Wallpaper (Heathen Short)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American humanist, author, lecturer, sociologist, social reform advocate, and utopian feminist whose best-known work is her chilling, semi-autobiographical masterpiece, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which redefined feminist literature. Inspired by Gilman's battle with postpartum depression and the damaging "rest cure" prescribed by her doctor, this gripping psychological short story plunges into a woman's unraveling mind and descent into madness that bl...