Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading feminist thinker of her age, is best known for her novella -The Yellow Wallpaper- which is a chilling description of post-partum depression. This volume also contains -Why I wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'-, -Herland- (a novel set in a society consisting solely of women), -Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution-, and a selection of her verse.

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First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiance to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, restaurant, and hotel."

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment,...