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The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892 · Short story

6,000 words 17m at 350 WPM

Synopsis

A woman is prescribed the "rest cure" by her physician husband and confined to a room with hideous wallpaper. Her diary tracks, in real time, what isolation does to a mind that was perfectly fine before being silenced. A short, devastating piece of feminist literature.

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