Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Essays

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman provides insight into how "nervous depression" or postpartum depression was addressed in the late 19th century. The treatment rendered to the primary character of the story is considerably different than the level of evaluation and treatment rendered today with women who suffer the same condition. Following is a comparative analysis of the treatment of postpartum depression by current health professionals.

Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a first person short story from the end of the nineteen-century. It tells the story of a woman that reaches various states of delusion and madness while following a…

Women during the Victorian age had little choice over their fate once they became marrying age. In most cases, men married these women because of the property they owned and to have and raise children.

¶ … Communication between Men in Women in Relationships during the late 1800s: "The Story of an Hour" and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Oppression and understanding are at the heart of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." If the two women had known each other, they would have found that they much in common…

¶ … trace how the world changes during the course of the 19th century, especially in the role of women in fiction. Edna Pontellier, the heroine of "The Awakening," is a modern woman of the late 19th century - searching…

Educational opportunities for men and women are now equal under the law, but that was not always the case. American women made slow progress during the nineteenth century in securing their rights to expand their…

¶ … Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman and "To build a fire" by Jack London are two classic short stories dealing with man's struggle for survival against powerful antagonistic powers.

Yellow Wallpaper and the Female Gothic Tradition

Gilman, Melville, And Houston Short Stories