The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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A woman confined to an upstairs room by her physician husband for a rest cure becomes obsessed with the patterns crawling across the yellow wallpaper. Gilman's 1892 story turns Victorian medical paternalism into one of the most studied works of psychological horror in English.

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