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The yellow wallpaper (Lothian Region edition.)

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What happens when a woman is pushed too far? Is she able to express her thoughts and feelings, or is she forced towards the expectation of behaving 'normally' again soon?

A woman travels with her husband to an old colonial mansion after a nervous breakdown triggered by the birth of their child. Confined to the nursery and allowed only to breathe fresh air, eat well and rest in line with a regimented 'cure', she slowly begins to unravel at the seams. Her only distraction is writing in secret - that, and the woman she begins to see trapped inside the yellow wallpaper of the room itself. 

Isolated and breaking apart, she sets herself a task: to free the woman, and to become one with her temporary confinement.

Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' presents a harrowing, disturbing account of mental stress, confinement and female turmoil - within which the only available solace can be found inside four peeling, sickly yellow walls...

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1914090357 / 9781914090356
eBook
813.4
26/08/2022
English
Classics
98 pages
Published in Scotland. Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.