Perkins Gilman was an American writer from around the turn of the 19 th century, who suffered from some form of postnatal depression, as we now understand it.
The unabashed representation of the impact of forced isolation on a person's mental health prompted me to revisit it. During lockdown, however, it was the unabashed representation of the impact of forced isolation on a person's mental health which prompted me to revisit it. I first read the story a few years ago and, as a lover of both gothic and feminist literature, the unnerving and deeply sad imagery stuck with me.
“The color is repellent, almost revolting a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”Ĭharlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a skilfully paced short story detailing the gradual deterioration of a woman's mental state, with an ending that creeps up on you – in every sense.
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