The Yellow Wall-Paper
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  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529955729
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

The Yellow Wall-Paper

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2 Dec 2025
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26 Feb 2015
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26 Sep 2019
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25 Feb 2015
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The Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction with nine novels by nine pioneering women.

Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction.

'The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.'

In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by her physician husband to recuperate in an isolated New England mansion. There she is barred from her work of writing, denied any visits to friends, and encouraged to simply get better. Sequestered in the old nursery at the top of the house, with barred windows and a bed nailed to the floor, she has little to do but examine the strange wallpaper that surrounds her – and appears to shift before her very eyes.

This is the tale of a woman driven to the brink and beyond. Here accompanied by Gilman’s key wider stories, The Yellow Wallpaper endures as a groundbreaking, deeply disturbing classic of feminist horror.

'A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect' Maggie O’Farrell

The Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529955729
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendant of the prominent and influential Beecher family. In 1884 she married Charles Water Stetson. After giving birth, Charlotte sank into a deep depression. She entered a sanitarium in Philadelphia to undergo the 'rest cure', a controversial treatment, which forbade any type of physical activity or intellectual stimulation. 1892, she published the now-famous story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'. In 1898, her most famous nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published. With its publication, and subsequent translation into seven languages, Gilman earned international acclaim. In 1900, she married her first cousin, George Houghton Gilman. Over the next thirty-five years, she wrote and published hundreds of stories and poems and more than a dozen books.

Also by CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Novels, Stories & Poems (LOA #356)
Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper
Herland and Selected Stories
The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Herland
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