The Yellow Wallpaper

Abstract

"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) is a short story by American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story is a collection of journal entries written by an unnamed woman whose physician husband has spirited her away to an old summer mansion in an attempt to cure her of "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency." It is regarded as an important work in early American feminist literature for its conversations on women's mental and physical health in the nineteenth century.