The Yellow Wall Paper
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Title
The Yellow Wall Paper
Description
This signed copy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wall Paper belonged to Mary Hutcheson Page, a fellow prominent suffragist writer. Telling the story of an ill woman confined to one room for her “resting cure,” this book is a narrative of “female” hysteria, insanity, silence, gaslighting, and suppression of women's opinions about their bodies and treatment.
Gilman struggled to publish her manuscript, rejected as “miserable” from the Atlantic Monthly, where Julia Ward Howe published “Battle Hymn” (adjacent). Suffragists quickly claimed the narrative as an early feminist battle cry, but the gesture was white-centric, as many others were; Gilman was openly racist and pro-slavery.
The inscription reads:
To my good friend
Mary Hutcheson Page -
with love.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Aug. 25th. '10 -
Gilman struggled to publish her manuscript, rejected as “miserable” from the Atlantic Monthly, where Julia Ward Howe published “Battle Hymn” (adjacent). Suffragists quickly claimed the narrative as an early feminist battle cry, but the gesture was white-centric, as many others were; Gilman was openly racist and pro-slavery.
The inscription reads:
To my good friend
Mary Hutcheson Page -
with love.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Aug. 25th. '10 -
Creator
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Source
Jon A. Lindseth Suffrage Collection
Publisher
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Date
Second edition printed 1901, signed 1910.
Format
17 cm.
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
e9907bd1-6f12-4e73-b513-db36f7b879df
Collection
Citation
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall Paper,” The Power of Portrayal: Envisioning Women's Representation, accessed May 10, 2024, https://cornellcolab.net/suffrage/items/show/17.