Rewriting The Yellow Wallpaper -- The Yellow Wallpaper Essays

Rewriting The yellowness wallpaper Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman rank as deuce of the most outstanding champions of womens rights who were active during the nineteenth century. Both professed a complex and personal faith and both were wise teeming and secure enough to develop their own ideas and relationship with their creator. In 1895 Stanton published The Womans Bible, her personal colza on organized religions strangle-hold on the women of the world. Gilman published her short story The Yellow cover in 1892. She wrote the story, she said, to save people from being driven mad (Golden 52). The heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper finds her only escape from the oppression of a implike spouse is a headlong descent into madness. Stanton and Gilman met at least once, near 1896 according to Gilmans autobiography. Of the many people I met during these years I was especially impressed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. To have been with her . . . seemed to establish conne ction with a refined period of real heroism (Gilman 216). Perhaps if the philosophies of these two great women were to have it off together, at the perfect moment, they would possess the potential to save the heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper. The pursuance scenario might prove feasible. ---------- An Obstacle Charlotte Perkins Gilman l I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other peoples too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off my view. ---------- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman amended, with apologies, by Margaret A. Stanton ---------- The heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper... ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ Susan B. Anthony Correspondence, Writings, Speeches. Schocken Books, NY 1981. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1990. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, The Yellow Wallpaper The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Second Ed ition. Gen. Ed. Paul Lauter. D. C. Heath and Co., Lexington, MA 1994. Golden, Catherine, ed. The unfree Imagination A Casebook on The Yellow Wallpaper . The womens liberationist Press at The City University of NY 1992. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Womans Bible. NY European Pub. Co. 1895-98. Northeastern U. P., Boston 1993. credit line 1 The poem An Obstacle by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is used as an epigraph by Catherine Golden, ed. The Captive Imagination A Casebook on The Yellow Wallpaper (The Feminist Press NY City UP, 1992) vii.