Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. The journal was written by a woman whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer. The story is written as a collection of journal entries narrated in the first person. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. " The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. Cover of a 1901 edition of The Yellow Wallpaper
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