When a woman’s physician husband rents them an old mansion for the summer to help treat her ‘temporary nervous depression’, something is waiting in the old nursery walls for her. Locked away with only her journal and her mind, will she be able to escape the psychological prison her husband has trapped her in.
About the author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American writer who advocated for social reform, especially granting women greater and fairer rights. Her work revolved around the problem of male domination and the division between the genders at the time. In her career, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a number of literary works including, non-fiction, fiction and poetry books. One of her most successful stories was ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ with its strong feminist undertone showed the suppression women had by the male doctors who dominated the field.
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