Charlotte Perkins Gilman

These links relate primarily to "The Yellow Wall-Paper."

• "The Yellow Wallpaper"  Image files of the pages from The New England Magazine that are the first publication of the story (vol. 11, Jan. 1892).  Note that the author was listed as Charlotte Perkins Stedman, and the first page carried the image used as a watermark for this page.  (This material is part of the Making of America site at Cornell.  There is another Making of America site at the University of Michigan.  Both provide access to a wide range of primary materials for research on American culture during the second half of the nineteenth century.)
• "The Yellow Wallpaper"  One of several online versions of the story
• "The Yellow Wallpaper"  E-text with printable .pdf file link
• "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper"  There are dead links to this 1913 article on a number of very good pages, but on 13 Feb. 2004 this one is working, and so is this one.
• Yet another "Why I Wrote," but this page also offers a link to all three of the original illustrations and a quotation from Dr. S. Weir Mitchell that gives his opinion about women's intellects.  (Scroll down, but first you may want to get any heavy objects that can be thrown out of the vicinity of your computer screen.)
• Annotations for "The Yellow Wallpaper" from a medical point of view:  "The Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database is an annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings."  ("About the Database")
• Annotation from the same source for a work by S. Weir Mitchell .  The annotation describes Weir Mitchell's "rest cure."  There is also a link to a page on S. Weir Mitchell as an author, with information about some of his literary work.
• "Putting the rest cure to rest - again: rest has no place in treating chronic fatigue"  According to this 1995 editorial from the British Medical Journal, chronic fatigue syndrome has some symptoms in common with what the 19th century called neurasthenia, and some of the treatments offered for CFS in 1995 essentially resurrected Weir Mitchell's "rest cure."
• American Literature Research and Analysis:  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"  Annotated text, critical articles, annotated bibliographies, and more.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)  This is Dr. Donna Campbell's Gilman page, an excellent set of links to critical and textual materials. 
• Study Guide for "The Yellow Wallpaper"
• Critical Essays on Gilman and her work (at the Domestic Goddesses site)
• Biography  (also at the Domestic Goddesses site)  Another  Another  
• News article on Gilman from the Cleveland Journal for 15 July 1905
• The Yellow Wallpaper  Information about a movie version of the story.  The site includes the script for the film.
• The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society  This is a good place to start if you want to move beyond "The Yellow Wallpaper" in your study of Gilman and her work.
• Herland  Gilman's utopian novel (Study guide for this work)
• Women and Economics  Gilman's book on economics.  It is still in print, and it is interesting to run a search for the title and see the web sites not connected with literary study that mention and seem to recommend it.

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