A review by swirls
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

5.0

Many of us will (or *should*) have read "The Yellow Wallpaper" in school - it deserves to be widely read and for more reasons than one. While "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a brilliant piece of writing, Charlotte Perkins Gilman will never be considered one of the literary greats of her time, with good reason. Modern readers will find her fiction overly formulaic and moralistic, and even the editor of this selection will describe her writing as quick and careless. However, this selection is fascinating for exposing not so much to her literary accomplishments, but to her humanist-feminist ideas, radical for her time.

Read the introduction last in order to better appreciate the stories.