In order to truly appreciate Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader needs to know how psychiatric illness was treated during the Victorian era. Women suffering from any form of mental illness were cautioned against work of any kind (see Women and Mental Illness for reference) because...
It was nice to read this significant piece of feminist literature again - literally, it's been decades since I've last read it. I can understand both why it has been "hidden-away" by the establishment when it was originally written and that it had to wait nearly 50 years before it again became known...
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