The woman in white tells about the distressed psyche of woman after conceiving a child.

1. By:
John Howard

2.  Born July 3, 1860
 A famous sociologist, novelist, and author of
short stories
 A utopian feminist
 Best known work is “TheYellowWallpaper”
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3.  Born in Hartford, Connecticut
 She taught herself to read
 Spent a lot of time with Harriet Beecher
Stowe
 She read and studied by herself in the public
libraries

4.  She suffered from post-partum depression
 She moved to California to participate in
feminist organizations
 Married her first cousin
 Diagnosed with breast cancer
 Committed suicide on August 17, 1935

5.  Active in social reform in Pasadena
 Represented California in the Suffrage
Convention
 Gained popularity when she lectured on
Nationalism
 In 18900 she wrote fifteen essays, novellas,
poems, and short stories
 One of the most forgotten feminist

7.  Set in a country house
 A series of journal entries
 Women suffers from postpartum depression
 Written to change peoples minds about the
role of women in society
 A response to when a doctor tried to cure her
of her depression

8.  An unknown protagonist
 Husband is a physician
 Husband prescribes the “rest cure”
 Forbids her from writing
 She links her nervousness to the wallpaper
 She studies the wallpaper throughout the day

9.  Protagonist begins to see a women in the
wall
 Tries to rescue her and creeps around the
room
 Becomes hopelessly insane
 Protagonist crawls over John and continues
creeping around the room

10.  First published in the “New England
Magazine” in January 1892
 “TheAtlantic Monthly” rejected the story
 Considered a psychological horror

11.  Written in a time of strict moral control of
women
 Women confined to a home to perform
domestic tasks
 Women had to be modest and pure
 Women shouldn’t read fiction or write

12.  See the end as freedom from a bad marriage
 The women in the wallpaper shows the
protagonist the way

13.  The subordination of women in marriage
 Importance of self-expression
 The “resting cure”

14.  The journal
 Irony

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