Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best known for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, (1892) which is based on her own experience As the story begins, the woman-whose name we never learn tells of her depression and how it is being treated by her husband and brother who are both doctors. ... She spends most of her time in a room with yellow wallpaper and very little to occupy her mind with. ... The narrator wants to set this woman free, so she peels off the yellow wallpaper. ... Though The Yellow Wallpaper is fiction, it was based on Gilman's own experience after being diagnosed as hysteri...

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