Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, The Yellow Wall-Paper' (1890), which draws on her own experience of depression and insanity, this edition features her Impress story studies', works in the manner of writers such as James, Twain, and Kipling. These stories, together with other fiction from her neglected California period (1890-5), throw new light on Gilman as a practitioner of the art of fiction. In her Forerunner stories she repeatedly explores the situation of `the woman of fifty' and inspires reform by imagining workable solutions to a range of personal and social problems. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Robert Shulman is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Inhalt

• The Yellow Wall Paper

• That Rare Jewel

• The Unexpected

• Circumstances Alter Cases

• The Gisnt Wistaria

• An Extinct Angel

• The Rocking Chair

• Deserted

• An Elopement

• Through This

• This Misleading of Pendleton Oaks

• A Day's Berryin'

• Five Girls

• One Way Out

• An Unpatentated Process

• An Unnatural Mother

• Three Thanksgivings

• According to Solomon

• The Cottagette

• The Widow's Might

• The Jumping of Place

• In Two Houses

• Turned

• Making a Change

• Mrs Elder's Idea

• Their House

• Her Beauty

• Mrs Hines's Money

• Bee Wise

• A Council of War

• Fulfilment

• A Partnership

• If I Were a Man

• Mr Peebles's Heart

• Mrs Merrill's Duties

• Girls and Land

• Dr Clair's Place

• A Surplus Woman

• Joan's Defender