In this classic late-nineteenth-century
story by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman, a new mother
suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum
depression,' is diagnosed with a nervous disorder. Instructed
to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating
company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible
to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for
her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented
house, she descends into madness.
