‘It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places wh ere it isn’t faded a nd wh ere the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, fo r mless so r t of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .’ ba sed on the autho r ’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the to r tuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America’s leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. In addition to her masterpiece 'The Yellow Wallpaper', this new edition includes a se lection of her best sho r t fiction a nd extracts fr om her autobiography.