Gilman's short story begins as a seemingly ordinary account of a woman confined to a room under the infamous "rest cure" prescribed for nervous illness.

As the wallpaper around her becomes an object of obsession, the story unfolds into one of literature's most unsettling portraits of psychological collapse, while simultaneously exposing the ways medicine, marriage and patriarchal authority conspire to deny women agency over their own minds. It remains one of the foundational texts of feminist literature, horror and psychological fiction.

This handsome Gibbs Smith edition gathers The Yellow Wallpaper alongside Gilman's utopian novel Herland and selections from Women and Economics, allowing readers to see the remarkable breadth of her work. Long before the language of intersectional feminism or social reproduction existed, Gilman was writing about domestic labour, economic dependence, education, motherhood and gender as political structures rather than private facts. Herland, in particular, remains one of the earliest and most fascinating feminist utopias, imagining an all-female society that quietly dismantles assumptions about civilisation, power and progress. An ideal volume for readers interested in feminist history, speculative fiction, social criticism, or simply one of the most influential short stories ever written.

2019 first edition hardback published by Gibbs Smith. Very good condition with light shelf wear to the boards and a clean, unmarked interior.