Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America`s leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed.

In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, `The Yellow Wall-Paper` (1890), which draws on her own experience of depression and insanity, this edition features her Impress `story studies`, works in the manner of writers such as James, Twain, and Kipling. These stories, together with other fiction from her neglected California period (1890-5), throw new light on Gilman as a practitioner of the art of fiction. In her Forerunner stories she repeatedly explores the situation of `the woman of fifty` and inspires reform by imagining workable solutions to a range of personal and social problems.

The Yellow Wall Paper
That Rare Jewel
The Unexpected
Circumstances Alter Cases
The Gisnt Wistaria
An Extinct Angel
The Rocking Chair
Deserted
An Elopement
Through This
This Misleading of Pendleton Oaks
A Day`s Berryin`
Five Girls
One Way Out
An Unpatentated Process
An Unnatural Mother
Three Thanksgivings
According to Solomon
The Cottagette
The Widow`s Might
The Jumping of Place
In Two Houses
Turned
Making a Change
Mrs Elder`s Idea
Their House
Her Beauty
Mrs Hines`s Money
Bee Wise
A Council of War
Fulfilment
A Partnership
If I Were a Man
Mr Peebles`s Heart
Mrs Merrill`s Duties
Girls and Land
Dr Clair`s Place
A Surplus Woman
Joan`s Defender