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The Yellow Wallpaper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrated by: Linda Velwest
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A new mother is brought by her doctor husband to a summer house to relax. He has determined that she suffers from a nervous condition. She is told to rest and she must have no intellectual or social stimulation. Her child and the house are taken care of by trusted others. She surreptitiously writes when no one is around. At first she is disturbed by the yellow wallpaper in the room she is staying in. when she requests another room, she is told that it is not good for her to have her whims attended to. She becomes obsessed by the wallpaper. What was a case of postpartum depression (or just not adjusting to mother hood in the manner expected of her) becomes something more...

Public Domain (P)2014 Linda Velwest
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