Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the late 19th and early 20th century. This volume presents a selection of her short fiction including "The Yellow Wall-Paper", in which she drew on her own experience of depression and insanity.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' (1890), which draws on her own experience of depression and insanity, this edition features her Impress 'story studies', works in the manner of writers such as James, Twain, and Kipling. These stories, together with other fiction from her neglected California period (1890-5), throw new light on Gilman as a practitioner of the art of fiction. In her Forerunner stories she repeatedly explores the situation of 'the woman of fifty' and inspires reform by imagining workable solutions to a range of personal and social problems.

The Yellow Wall Paper: . That Rare Jewel: . The Unexpected: . Circumstances Alter Cases: . The Gisnt Wistaria: . An Extinct Angel: . The Rocking Chair: . Deserted: . An Elopement: . Through This: . This Misleading of Pendleton Oaks: . A Day's Berryin': . Five Girls: . One Way Out: . An Unpatentated Process: . An Unnatural Mother: . Three Thanksgivings: . According to Solomon: . The Cottagette: . The Widow's Might: . The Jumping of Place: . In Two Houses: . Turned: . Making a Change: . Mrs Elder's Idea: . Their House: . Her Beauty: . Mrs Hines's Money: . Bee Wise: . A Council of War: . Fulfilment: . A Partnership: . If I Were a Man: . Mr Peebles's Heart: . Mrs Merrill's Duties: . Girls and Land: . Dr Clair's Place: . A Surplus Woman: . Joan's Defender: