By: John Howard

 Born July 3, 1860  A famous sociologist, novelist, and author of short stories  A utopian feminist  Best known work is “The Yellow Wallpaper” Google Images

 Born in Hartford, Connecticut  She taught herself to read  Spent a lot of time with Harriet Beecher Stowe  She read and studied by herself in the public libraries

 She suffered from post-partum depression  She moved to California to participate in feminist organizations  Married her first cousin  Diagnosed with breast cancer  Committed suicide on August 17, 1935

 Active in social reform in Pasadena  Represented California in the Suffrage Convention  Gained popularity when she lectured on Nationalism  In she wrote fifteen essays, novellas, poems, and short stories  One of the most forgotten feminist

 Set in a country house  A series of journal entries  Women suffers from postpartum depression  Written to change peoples minds about the role of women in society  A response to when a doctor tried to cure her of her depression

 An unknown protagonist  Husband is a physician  Husband prescribes the “rest cure”  Forbids her from writing  She links her nervousness to the wallpaper  She studies the wallpaper throughout the day

 Protagonist begins to see a women in the wall  Tries to rescue her and creeps around the room  Becomes hopelessly insane  Protagonist crawls over John and continues creeping around the room

 First published in the “New England Magazine” in January 1892  “The Atlantic Monthly” rejected the story  Considered a psychological horror

 Written in a time of strict moral control of women  Women confined to a home to perform domestic tasks  Women had to be modest and pure  Women shouldn’t read fiction or write

 See the end as freedom from a bad marriage  The women in the wallpaper shows the protagonist the way

 The subordination of women in marriage  Importance of self-expression  The “resting cure”

 The journal  Irony

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