![]() Weir Mitchell, whose "cures" for women were world famous. Like Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, and Jane Addams, Gilman was sent to Dr. ![]() Gilman, an influential economist, lecturer, and publisher, experienced depression from the time of her first marriage to Charles Walter Stetson, and the depression intensified after their daughter was born. It was revived by Feminist Press after being out of print for 70 years and is now one of the most often read and written-about stories of feminist consciousness. Narratives of supernatural horror were a staple of magazines at the turn of the century, and Gilman's story-published in 1892 in The New England Magazine, in 1899 as a chapbook, and later by William Dean Howells in a 1920 story collection-was read without attention to the gender of the unnamed protagonist. It was originally seen as a Poe-like gothic tale, but it is now considered a classic story of a woman suffering postpartum depression and improperly treated with isolation and inactivity. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" was rejected by the editor of Atlantic Monthly because the story made him miserable. ![]()
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