Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-Paper recensie, review en informatie Amerikaanse feministische gothic verhalen uit 1899. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classic Weird Girls de heruitgave van de bundel met feministische gothic verhalen van de schrijfster afkomstig uit de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. In 2022 verscheen de Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Het gele behang bij uitgeverij Orlando.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-Paper recensie en review
- “A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect.” (Maggie O’Farrell)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
- Auteur: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: gothic verhalen
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weid Girls
- Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
- Omvang: 144 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek met gothic verhalen van Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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. There she is barred from her work of writing, denied any visits to friends, and encouraged to simply get better. Sequestered in the old nursery at the top of the house, with barred windows and a bed nailed to the floor, she has little to do but examine the strange wallpaper that surrounds her – and appears to shift before her very eyes.
This is the tale of a woman driven to the brink and beyond. Here accompanied by Gilman’s key wider stories, The Yellow Wallpaper endures as a groundbreaking, deeply disturbing classic of feminist horror.
De Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Het gele behang in 2022 bij uitgeverij Orlando.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 3 July 1860 in Hartfort, Connecticut. She was a feminist and journalist and author of a number of fiction and non-fiction works. These include Women and Economics (1898), Concerning Children (1900), The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903) and Herland (1915). She is best remembered for her short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which describes the descent of a woman into madness following a ‘rest cure’. Unconventional in many ways, Gilman’s life included two marriages and separation from her nine-year-old daughter, whom she sent to live with her ex-husband and his new wife. She was a Suffragette, a public speaker on social issues and the editor of a number of literary magazines during her career. In 1932, Gilman was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer and, as an advocate of euthanasia, she took the decision to commit suicide. She did this on 17 August 1935 in Pasadena, California, by taking an overdose of chloroform.
