The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Read by Freya Hansen
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by American feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and was first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.
The story takes the form of a journal. A woman is diagnosed by her physician husband as suffering from temporary nervous depression. The couple move into an old mansion, occupying principally a nursery room with yellow wallpaper. To accelerate her recuperation, the woman is instructed to avoid working or writing, to eat well and get plenty of fresh air.
The narrator becomes obsessed with the patterns in the wallpaper behind which the narrator begins to believe a woman is trapped.
This recording was first published by Librivox on 26th April 2015.
