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"[http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html The Yellow Wallpaper]" is a semi-autobiographical short story written in 1891 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It takes the perspective of a young woman who has been ordered to continuous bedrest as a treatment for hysteria. Trapped in a small room in her husband's country house, with nothing to do all day but sleep and write in her journal, she starts to dwell upon the dingy yellow wallpaper that decorates the place. In her boredom, she begins to see women crouching, cowering, trapped in the walls...
A landmark feminist work, its depiction of postpartum psychosis was also an inspiration for early [[Cosmic Horror Story|cosmic horror]], in particular ''[[The King in Yellow]]''. [http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2011/03/hp-lovecraft-on-yellow-wallpaper-by.html Note] that [[
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* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]
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