Probably the very worst time to choose to read Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" is in the latter stages of first pregnancy when you find yourself consumed by growing life and the kind of fear you can neither justify nor control. No other novella has ever haunted me more…
If you haven’t read it, I don’t want to tell you too much. I picked this
Listen to the radio play here then read Charlotte Perkins Gilmans own explanation of the
Read it and weep for every woman ever haunted by wallpaper, the stifling of her dreams, or the all consuming fear of what it is to be a Mother.
I read this in high school and looooved it!