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The Yellow Wallpaper

A woman confined to an upstairs room for a rest cure writes about the wallpaper she cannot stop watching.
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
  • First published 1892
  • Short story
  • Available online · Awaiting physical preservation
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The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted
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Provenance

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Source

First printed in The New England Magazine (January 1892).

Transcribed text: ebook 1952 at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1952, released there 1999-11-01 (that is the transcription's date, not the book's). Copied 2026-10-30. Its own record says: “Public domain in the USA.”

Checksums (SHA-256): source file a40cdaa300cd6850f2c18c2c8fd027339e53c9ed5ac0c01fe9cfe3b57cbca898; prepared text 6434ca7c7e62aa75c2c71d2d9729732ade90cd4dfc4d9dd6abfd22ffd329a183.

Changes to the text

  • The source's header, licence, footer and production credits were removed.
  • Line breaks inside paragraphs were joined; paragraphs and short-line blocks such as contents lists were kept.
  • Underscores marking italics were removed.
  • Extra spaces were collapsed.
  • No illustrations were imported; captions stay as text.

Rights

  • First published before 1931: public domain in the United States.
  • The author died before 1956: out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years.

Public domain in the United States (first published 1892); the author died in 1935, so also out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years. Not reviewed country by country beyond that.

Text only. The source's licence, trademark and boilerplate are removed, so the archive does not use the source's name as a mark; the source is cited as provenance.

Reviewed 2026-10-30, batch seed-2026-10. Archive editions credit the original author; Aurelune printed them and claims no rights in the text.