Wild unrest : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the making of "The yellow wall-paper" / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz.

  • Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Description

Presents a biography on the late author that focuses on the real events that inspired the famous work, "The Yellow Wall-Paper," along with the author's views on the work's true inspiration and meaning.

Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Physical description

ix, 251 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Charlotte at twenty-one -- 2. Walter happens -- 3. Pull back and a proposition -- 4. To wed and to bed -- 5. After marriage, what? -- 6. In the care of S. Weir Mitchell -- 7. Return to Providence -- 8. To "The yellow wall-paper" -- 9. "The yellow wall-paper" -- 10. Beyond "The yellow wall-paper."

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Gilman)
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780199739806
  • 0199739803