Autor Charlotte Perkins Gilman

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror…

'The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.'In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by her physician husband to recuperate in an isolated New England mansion.…

First published in 1892, this perfect novel portrays with chilling power the powerlessness of women within Victorian marriage.

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